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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



LIFE AND CHARACTER 



JOHN S. BARBOUR 



(A SENATOR FHOM VIRGINIA), 



DELIVERED IN THE 



SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 



February 3 and 25, 1893. 



PUBLISHED BV ORDER OF CONGRESS. 



WASHINCrrON: 

GOVERNMENT I'RINTING OFFICE. 

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liesohrd by the Seiialc (the House of Representatives coHeurrinij), That tliere 
be printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the Hon. John S. Bar- 
hour, hite a Senator from the State of Virginia. 8,000 copies, of which 2,000 
copies shall he delivered to the Senators and Kepreseutatives of that State, 
and of the remaining number 2,000 shall he for the use of the Senate and 
4,000 copies for the use of the House, and of the quota of the Senate the 
Public Printer shall set aside 50 copies, which he shall have bound in full 
morocco with gilt edges, the same to be delivered when completed to the 
family of the deceased; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
directed to have engraved and printed at the earliest day practicable a 
portrait of the deceased to accompany said eulogies. 
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Jadge and Mrs. Isaac R. H|tt 
Nov. 17, 1931 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

Death of Senator P.irboiir 5 

Anuimneeuient in the Senate ' 

jVnnoimcement iu the House of Representatives 12 

Funeral ceieraonies in the Senate Chamber IT 

Sermon of Bishop Keene 1 1" 

Proceedings iu the Senate : 
Address of — 

Mr. Daniel, of Virginia -"' 

Mr. Mander.sou, of Nebraska , •"'6 

Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia ^1 

Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire -13 

Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut 15 

Mr. Hill, of New York 49 

Mr. HiscDck, of New York 52 

Mr. Huntou, of Virginia - 55 

Proceedings in the House of Representatives : 
Address of — 

Mr. Meredith, of Virginia 62 

Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia 66 

Mr. Wise, of Virginia "< 1 

Mr. Milliken, of Maine — ''5 

Mr. Tucker, of Virginia ''"^ 

Mr. Kendall, of Kentucky **1^ 

Mr. Jones, of Virginia 

3 



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DEATH OF SENATOR BARBOUR. 
JOHN STRODE Bakbouk, Senator from Virginia, died sud- 
denly at liis residence, 144 B street northeast, Washington, 
about r,:30 o'clock a. m., Satiirday, May 14, 18S)2. 

Fpon the dav before his death Mr. Barbolth attended a 
meeting of the Committee on the District of Columbia, of ^hich 
he was'a prominent member, and passed the evening in conver- 
sation with relatives and friends. When he retired to his r..om 
at 10 o'clock he was, apparently, in sound health with no premo- 
nition of his approaching end. A few minutes after 5 o'clock 
the next morning Mr. Barbour awoke a relative and said 
that he felt ill. Assistance was immediately given to him and 
medical aid summoned, but before a physician arrived at the 
house Mr. Barbour had expired. , 

The announcementof Mr. Barbour's death was received with 
general sorrow. He was a man witli hosts of friends, beloved 
by manv and respected by all who knew him. His death put 
an end to a well-rounded life and to a career of honor, of usetul- 
uess, and of distinction-a career brilliant in its example and 
of incalculable value in the results accomplished. 

John Strode Barbour, of Alexandria, was born in Cul- 
peper Countv, Virginia, December 29, 1820 ; pursued a course of 
study at the University of Virginia for three years, and gradu- 
ated from the school of law there in 1S42; began the practice 
of law in his native county of Culpeper; was elected to the 
legislature of Virginia from Culpeper County in 1847, and was 
reelected, serving four consecutive sessions; was elected presi- 
dent of the railroad company then called the Orange and 



6 Death of Soiator Barbour. 

Alexaudi'ia Eailroad Company in 1S52, and served in that 
position until it was merged into what is now known as tbe 
Virginia Midland Railroad Company, of wliicli lie was presi- 
dent till he resigned in 1883 ; was elected to the Forty-seventh, 
the Forty-eighth, and the Forty-ninth Congresses and was 
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed 
Harrison H. Riddlelterger, Readjuster, and took his seat 
March i, 1889. The term for which he was elected will expire 
March 3, 1895. 

Every mark of respect was paid to the memory of Mr. Bar 
BOUR. A guard composed of employi'-s of the Senate watched 
over the remains at the residence of the late Senator and 
accompanied them when they were borne to the Capitol. The 
funeral ceremonies took place in tlie Senate Chamber in the 
pi-esence of the meml)crs of the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, 
the Senate and House of Representatives, the principal officials 
of the (xovernment, and eminent citizens of Virginia. After 
the ceremonies the remains of the late Senator, accompanied 
by the committees of the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives, were conveyed to Poplar Hill, his beautiful estate in 
Prince Gecuge's County, Maryland, and interred by the side 
of his wife. 



Announcement of the Death of Senator Barbour in 

THE Senate. 



Monday, May Id, 1892. 

The Vice-President resumed the chair. 

The Chaphxiu, Rev. J. G. Butler, D. I)., oflered the foHowiug 
prayer : 

O God, Jehovah, we reverently draw uigh to Thee, worship- 
ing Thee, the only living and trne God. Amid the mysteries 
of life and death, the generations coming and going, we rejoice 
that Thy throne abideth. We bless Thee for the life and 
immortality brought to light in the Gospel. We thank Thee 
for Him who is the way, and the truth, and the life. 

As we stand among the dying and the dead, give us grace to 
walk in Christ, ever accepting His truth and imitating His 
life, having begotten in us, by Thy divine Spirit, that life 
which shall never end. 

Sanctify to us, we pray Thee, this bereavement. Kemember 
very tenderly, thou (.iod of all comfort, those who stand most 
nearly related to Thy departed servant. We thank Thee for 
every true and faithful life and for this life spared so long. 

We pray Thee, teach us to live wisely and well, serving 
God and our own generation, keeping our consciences right 
before Thee and toward each other, doing whatsoever our 
hands And to do with all our might faithfully and well, not 
knowing the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man 



8 Announcement in. the Senate. 

Cometh, so that whenever Thou shalt t-oine we may be pre- 
pared to give account to Thee, the judge of quick and dead. 

Hallow to lis the day of God with all the blessed privileges 
that center in the holy Sabbath. Sanctify all the orderings 
of Thy providence unto us Thy servants this day. Have ns 
in Thy holy keeping, O Thou, in whom we live and move and 
have our being. If it please Thee, spare and prolong life, 
and teach ns so to use life's blessed opportunity tliat when 
we shall come to the end we may enter into rest. Blot out 
our transgressions, and grant us grace and peace, in the 
name <if Christ our Saviour. Amen. 

The Journal of the i^roceedings of Friday last was read 
and approved. 

DEATH OF .SENATOR BAEBOUR. 

Mr. Kenna. :Mr. President, in the absence, on account of 
sickness, of the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Daniel], it 
becomes my painful duty to announce to the Senate the 
death of Hon. John S. Barbour, late a member of this 
body from that State. 

Apparently in the full and liealthfiil possession of every 
normal faculty, :Mr. Barbour was among us on Friday in 
the active and zealous discharge of public duty. Even 
beyond the allotted time of threes(>ore years and ten he 
crossed this threshold on Friday afternoon, seemingly in vig- 
orous health, his last day's labor unconsciously performed. 
At 10 o'clock in the closing hours of that day he retired to 
his bedroom the embodiment and type and i)erfection, as far 
as human eye could see, of physical manhood. On Saturday 
morning, at the age of 71 years and 5 months, at the hour of 
five and a half o'clock, with only a word of admonition to 
those who attectionately surrounded him at his house in this 
city, John S. Barbottr passed away. 



Announcement in the Senate. 9 

Mr President, iu this secoud s.uldeu visitation of Trovi- 
dence in the present session of the Senate ^.e recognize a 
power in wliose inscrutable wisdom we were born to live, and 
iu the presence of whose unchallengeable majesty we are 
born to die. The death of Mr. Bakbouk is a great gru-t to 
his household, a calamity to his friends. It has come as a 
personal affliction to his late associates in the publu- service 
here His State will exhibit in the bereavement ot her 
people a realization of the full measure of her loss, and his 
country, by the observances in which the nations, by their 
accredited representatives, are soon, by your invitation, t<. 
take part, will acknowledge her sense and appreciation of 

this melancholy event. 

And yet, Mr. President, speaking for myself and making 
frank expression of the inspiration of which this solemn occa- 
sion possesses me, I have felt, as the associate and neighbor 
aud friend of Mr. BARBOUR, that memories of his private vu-- 
iues and public career, elevated and clean and noble as they 
were give back, at least in some degree, a compensation trom 
the "'rave. They soften by the sweet influences which radiate 
fronrthe consciousness of a life well spent the asperities of 
..rief which nature is prone to indulge on occasions like this, 
ibis death is to my nund the gathering of ripened truit, the 
garnering of the sheaf in the well-roandcd fullness of its golden 

maturity. 

JOHN S. BARBOUR was in all the relations of this ^orld an 
elevated character and an upright man. His sterling quali- 
ties of mind and heart bore practical fruit. His genius tor 
affairs made monumeuts in the business and public walks ot 
men, as, in a narrower sphere, his humanity made gratitudes 
which will follow like angels, guar.ling him to the tomb. 

When the Senate, as is its custom, shall liave set apart a 
day to be devoted to the recounting of hi.s manly virtues and 



10 Announcement in ilic Senate. 

the exliibitiou of the elements of Lis lofty character, it will be 
seen of all that his traits were above those of most of liis fel- 
low-men; that he was nsefnl and valnablc to his couutiy and 
his countrj'meu; that he practiced justice and fair dealing; 
that he was imbued with a love of riglit; that he gave example 
worthy of emulation by youth as well as by age, and that lie 
moved and had his being, without ostentation or form, in the 
reverence and veneration of his God. 

Mr. President, I offer the resolutions whidi I send to the 
desk. 

The Vice-President. The resolutions will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read the resolutions, as follows: 

Hesolced, That the anuouncement of the suddeu death of Hon. John S. 
Barbouk is received with profound sorrow by his associates in the Senate. 

Eexoh-ed, That a oommittee of nine Senators be appointed by the Vice- 
President to talce order, with a connnittee of the House of Representatives, 
for the funeral of the late Sen.ator BAKlion; ; and as a mark of respect for 
his memory that his remains be removed from the Capitol to his late resi- 
dence in Washinjfton, and thence to Poplar Hill, Maryland, for interment in 
charge of the Sergeaut-at-Arms, and attended by said committee, who shall 
have power to carry tliis resolution into effect. 

Hesolferl, That the ."senate will atl o'clock to-day attend in its Chamber 
the exercises incident to his funeral. 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these proceed- 
ings to the House of Representatives and invite the House of Representa- 
tives to attend the funeral in the Sencate Chiimber at the hour named. 

The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 

The Vice-President. Under the second resolution, as the 
committee on the part of the Senate to take order with the 
committee from the House of Eepresentatives to accompany 
the remains of their late colleague to his final resting place, 
the Chair appoints the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Daniel], the 
Senator from West Virginia [Mr. Kenna], the Senator from 
Maryland [Mr. Gorman], the Senator from Mississippi [Mr. 
Walthall], the Senator from Kentucky [Mr. Carlisle], the 
Senator from Nevada [INIr. Stewart], the Senatcn- from Mich- 



Aiiiioii>ict'»u')tt in titc Senate. 11 

igiui [Mr. McMillan], the Seuator from Illinois [Mr. Cvllom], 
and the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Washburn]. 

RECESS. 

Mr. Kenna. Mr. President. I ask the adoption of the reso- 
hition which I send to the desk. 
Tlie resoluti<m was read, as foHows: 

liesolved, That the Senate do now take ;i recess until 12:50 o'clock. 

The resohition was agreed to; and (at 12 o'clock and 15 
minutes p. m.) tlie Senate took a recess until 12 o'clock and 50 
minutes p. ni., at which hour it reassembled. 

MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. 

A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. T. O. 
Towles, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had passed 
the following resolutions : 

liesolved, That the House of Representatives accept the invitation of the 
Senate to attend the funeral services of the late Hon. John S. Harisour, 
a Senator of the United States fioni the State of Virginia, to be held in 
the Senate Chamber this day at 1 o'clock p. m. 

Ilesolvcd further, That the Clerk of the House be directed to inform the 
Senate that the Speaker of the House has appointed the following com- 
mittee, to act in conjunctiim with the committee of the Senate, to make 
necessary arrangements and accompany the remains to the.jilace of burial, 
viz : Mr. Meredith, Mr. Holman, Mr. Wilson of West Virginia, Mr. Hen- 
derson of North Carolina, Mr. Hemphill, Mr. Mutchler, Mr. Blount, Mr. 
Comptou, Mr. O'Ferrall, Mr. Harmcr, Mr. Payne, and Mr. tirout. 



Announcement of the Death of Senator Barbour 
IN the House of Representatives. 



Satukday, May 14, 1892. 

The House met at 12 o'clock iii. 

Prayer by the Oliaplaiii, Ecv. W. H. :Mill)urn, 1). I)., as 
follows : 

O, Eternal God, another hand is beckoning us, another call 
is given. A Senator, long honorably connected with this 
House, has departed, and only flie tenement of clay is left to 
the tender care of those who loved him. Gloom oversjireads 
the State ft-om which he came, and maiij' hearts will be filled 
with sorrow and grief at the sad news that he is gone. Grant, 
we beseech Thee, that this impressive warning may come home 
to every heart before Thee, and that we may heed the solemn 
admonition to set our houses in order, so that when our call 
shall come we may be ready to gather u]> our feet and depart 
in ])eace with all men, having a good conscience towards Thee, 
fulfilling our duty, and so taking the record of a well-spent 
life to that world into which we so soon shall enter. Grant 
this, O Lord, thi'ough Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen. 

The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read, cor- 
rected, and ajiproved. 

DEATH OF SENATOR BAK150UR. 

Mr. Meeedith. Mr. Speaker, I arise for the pur])ose of 
making the painful announcement to this House of the death 
of Hon. John S. Baeboitr, a Senator from Virginia, which 

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Announccmail in the House of Representatives. 13 
occurred at his residence in this city, after a very brief illness, 
at abontlialf past 5 this morning. 

It is only pr..i.er tliat I should say upon this occasion that 
in the death of Senator Barbour his State has met ^ith an 
irreparable loss, in which the whole country will share. 

Uthe proper time I shall move a resolution fixing a_ day 
when his friends and admirers in this House may have an 
opportunity of expressing their admiration for the character of 
Senator BARBOUR and of paying a just tribute to his memory 
I send to the Clerk's desk certain resolutions, upon which 1 
ask immediate action. 

The SPEAKER. The gentleman fromVirginia [Mr.MEREDiTH] 
submits certain resolutions, which will be reported by the 

Clerk. 

The resolutions were read, as follows: 

Ue.on.d That the House ha« received ^vith prolbun.l sorrow the 
J ^icieut of the death of Senator Johk .. ^^''--^^'^^-^^ 

IU;oh;d That the Speaker of the H.u.se appoint a committee of twelve 
J^X act in conjunction .ith such committee as may be appoin ed 
M ^he s;nate, to make the necessary arrangements and accompan> the 

^^i:^::;. TL.J';:^tf.nt^,er ...V of .espect the House do uo. a.youru. 

The resolutions wee agreed to; and the Speaker appointed 
as such committee Mr. Merepith, Mr. Holman, Mr. Wilson 
of West Virginia, Mr. Henderson of North Carobna, Mr. 

HEMPHILL, Mr. MUTCHLER, Mr. BLOVNT, Mr. COMPTON, Mr. 

O'Ferrall, Mr. HARMER, ^Iv. Payne, and Mr. (iROUT. 

Accordingly (at lli o'clock and 11 n.inutes p. m.) the House 
adjonrncd until Monday, May Ki, at 12 o'clock noon. 



\4 Announcement in the House of Representatives. 

Monday, May ir,, ISOa. 
The House met at 12 o'clock m. 

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. W. H. Milburn, T>. D. 
The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday last was read 
and approved. 

DEATH OF HON. .JOHN. S. BARBOUR. 

The Speaker laid before the House the following letter 
from the Vice-President of the United States: 

Vice-President's Chamber, 

Washington, May 14, 189$. 

Sir: It is my sa»l duty to .innounce the sudden death to-day of Hon. 
John .'<. Barbotr, late a Senator from the State of Virj^inia. 

The funeral services will be held in the Senate Chamber at 1 o'clock p. 
m., Monday, May Ki, 1892. 

On behalf of the Senate, I beg to extend to you and through you to the 
House of Representatives an invitation to .attend these services. 

A committee of five Senators will be appointed to act with such commit- 
tee as is appointed from the House of Representatives to accompany the 
remains to the place of burial. 

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient serviint, 

Levi P. Morton. 
The Hon. Charles F. Cuisp, 

Speaker of the Botim of liepresenlatires. 

The Speaker. The Chair is informed that the resolutions 
giving the action of the Senate on that subject will come over 
in a few moments. 

3iessa<tE from the senate. 

A message from the Senate by Jlr. McCook, its Secretary, 
announced that tlie Senate had passed the following resolu- 
tions : 

Resolriil, Th.at the announcement of the sudden death of Hon. .Tohn S. 
Barbour is received with jirofound sorrow by his associates in the Sen- 
ate. 

Jienoh-etl, That a committee of nine Senators be appointed ]iy the Vice- 
President to take order, witli a committee of the House of Repre- 



Announcement in the House of Represenlatives. 15 

seutatives, for tbe fm.er.l of the late Senator Barboi-r; aud as a mark of 
respect fo his memory that his remains he removed from the Cap,t ,1 to 
his late residence in Washington, and theuce to Poplar H.U, Maryland 
t ilrment in charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms and attended by satd 
committee, who .hall have po^ver to carry this ^<'^«l"*'°";°*";^^f ^. ^^ 

li,.oUei That the Senate will at 1 o'clock to-day attend in its Chamber 
the services incident to his funeral. 

Be.oh-u\, That the Secretary of the Senate oommnn.cate these proceed- 
ings to the House of Representatives and invite the House of Representa- 
tives to attend the funeral in the Senate Chamber at th,- hoar named. 

ifesoJred, That the Senate do now t^ke a recess until 12 :dO o clock. 

FUNERAL OF SENATOR JOHN S. BARBOUR. 

' The Speaker. If tliere be no objection the Chair will 
entertain a motion respecting the resolution which has .just 
been presented from the Senate. 

Mr. O'Ferrall. I submit the resolutions I send to the 

desk. 
The Clerk read as follows : 

lle^olrei, That the House of Representatives accept the invitation of the 
Set:: to attend the funeral services of the late Hon. '^-^ S;^--;-^^ 
Senator of the United States from the State of Virginia, to be held in the 
Senate Chamber this day at 1 o'clock p. in. , , . „ ., >j,.„^t„ 

Jie^oU'ei, That the Clerk of the House be directed to infoi-m the Senate 
that the Speaker of the House has appointed the following Committee to 
act in con unction with the Committee of the Senate to make necessary 
arrangements, and to accompany the remains to the place of bur .d 
. namely: Messrs. Meredith, Holman, Wilson of West Virginia Henderson 
of North Carolina, Hemphill. Mutchler, Blount, Compton, U'Jerrall, Har- 
mer, Payne, and firout. 

The resolutions were adopted. 

Mr. Holman. In this connection, Mr. Speaker, I otter the 

followin};- resolution : 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Me^oM, That at 12:50 p. m. the House of Representatives will proceed 
to the Senate Chamber to attend the funeral services of the late ^enat«r 
Barbour, and that immediately on the conclusion ot such services the 
House will return to the Hall for the further transaction ot business. 
The resolution was adopted. 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES IN THE SENATE CHAMBER. 



About an hour before noon the remains of the deceased Sen- 
ator were brought from his home and placed in the marble 
room, where they remained until the hour fixed for the com- 
mencement of the services in the Senate Chamber. 

The body was inclosed in a black cloth-covered tasket, 
devoid of silver ornaments save a plain silver plate bearing 
the following inscription : 

JOHN S. BAKBOTTK. 

Bom December 2.9, ISIO. 

Died Man i-l< iS9S. 

The casket was scarcely visible beneath the magnificent 
floral display. At the head was a huge bunch of American 
Beauty and blush roses. There were two pillows of Calla 
lilies, roses, and camelias— one of them with the words "At 
rest" in purple immortelles thereon. A wreath of roses, 
camelias, and ivy was next to one of the pillows, and the 
remainder of the available space was taken up by a very large 
wreath of deep cream roses and lilies of the valley adorned 
with violet ribl)ons. On a table in one of the window recesses 
was a fine wreath which had been sent by order of President 
Harrison. It was composed of roses, camelias, and lilies of 
the valley, and was tied with broad violet ribbon. 

S. Mis. 64 2 17 



18 Funeral Ceremonies in llie Senate Chamber. 

A detail ffom tlie Capitol police force stood guard over the 
remains until the services began in the Senate, and the doors 
leading to the marble room were closed to visitors. 

The Chamber was arranged in the manner usual for such 
ceremonies, seats being provided for the Cabinet, the 
Supreme Coiu't, the House of Eepreseutatives, the Diplomatic 
Corps, the General Commanding the Army, the senior 
Admiral of the Xavy, and the Comniissionersof the District of 
Columbia. 

The chair which had been occupied by the dead Senator on 
the preceding Friday was draped in black. 

There was a large attendance of spectators in the gallery, 
many of whom were iiersonal friends of the departed states- 
man. In one of the northwest galleries was the Virginia 
Democratic Association of Washington. Among the noted 
Virginians who were present during the ceremonies were Gov. 
P. W. McKinney, Hon. John Goode, ex-Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, 
Hon. John Eandolph Tucker, and ex-Senator Robert E. 
Withers. 

At five minutes before 1 o'clock, the members of the House 
of Repiesentatives, preceded by the Sergeant-atArms and 
Clerk and headed by the Speaker, entered the Senate Cham- 
ber. The Speaker was escorted to a seat at the right of the 
Vice-rresident, the Clerks at the Secretary's desk, the Ser- 
geant-at-Arms on the right of the Vice-President's desk, and 
the members of the House were escorted to the seats on the 
floor ijrovided for them. 

They were soon followed by the Majjor-General Commanding 
the Army, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the 
Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of 
the United States, the members of the Cabinet, and the Diplo- 
matic Corps, who were respectively escorted to the seats 
assigned them on the floor of the Senate Chamber. The 



Funeral Ceremonies in the Senate Chamber. 19 

President was absent from the city and consequently could 
not attend tlie ceremoiiit's. 

At 1 o'clock and lU minutes p. m. tlie casket containing tlie 
remains of the deceased Senator was brought into the Senate 
Chamber, having been preceded by the family and friends of 
the deceased, and escorted by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
Senate and the committee of arrangements of the two Houses 
and jiallbearers selected from tlie Capitol police, and followed 
by acolytes and Rt. Eev. John J. Keane, rector of the Catholic 
University of America, Rev^ C. Gillespie, S. J., Eev. M. C. 
Dolan, S. J., Eev. A. M. Mandalari, S. J., Eev. James Smith, 
S. J., Eev. Jacob Walter, Eev. James F. Mackiii, Eev. John 
T. Delaney, Monsignor I. Schroeder and Prof. Joseph Pohle, 
of the Catholic University, and Eev. Aloysius Brosnan, S. J., 
master of ceremonies. 

The prayers lor the burial of the dead, prescribed in the 
ritual of the Catholic Church, were read by Eev. C. Gillespie, 
S. J., rector of St. Aloysius Church, first in Latin and then in 
English, the res^wnses being made by the attending clergy- 
men. After the incensing and blessing of the body, Et, Eev. 
John J. Keane tlelivered the following sermon : 



Funeral Sermon of Bishop Keane. 

Judge not before the time, until the Liud eonie, who both will bring to 
light the hidden things of darkness, :iud will make manifest the counsels 
of the hearts, and then shall every man have bis praise from God. — [1 Cor., 
IV, 5. 

In the presence of the judgment of God, how must all human 
judgment bow in adoring silence! It is the lesson which the 
Apostle of the Gentiles thus solemnly impressed on the Cor- 
inthians. It is the lesson which in this hour of mourning and 
of wistful gazing beyond the tomb he lovingly whispers to us. 



20 Funeral Ceremonies in the Senate Chamber. 

It is the lesson by which he ever shaped liis own life, lii no 
spirit of contempt for his fellow-meu, but in tlie profound con- 
viction that man's judgment is of but small account when 
compared with the judgments of the Almighty, he exclaimed: 
"To me it is a very small matter how I am judged by you, or 
by human judgment; neither do I judge my own self. For I 
am not conscious of any wrong in myself; yet am I not liereby 
justitied; but He that judgeth me is the Lord. " 

Could those white lips speak to us now, would they not, 
with the awful eloquence of eternity, reecho the words of the 
Apostle? " Judge me," he would say, "ye friends and part- 
ners and witnesses of my life, judge me, for it is your right; 
my life was not my own but yours, and you have a right to 
pass sentence on it. Judge me, all ye whose interests were 
for so many years intrusted to my keeping; honestly I strove 
to do my full duty to you, but I own my responsibility and 
your judgment is welcome. Judge me! O, my country, to 
whom the best energies of my life were consecrated; thou 
knowest that I loved thee devotedly; that I strove to serve 
thee unselfishly; that beyond all the interests of family or 
friends or party thy welfare was the chief object of my desires; 
to thee my life belonged and thou hast a right to judge it. 
But, O, my country and my friends, highly though I value 
your judgment, sorely though I would be grieved if ye found 
me worthy of your disapproval, sweet as will be to me the 
sentence of your approbation, the hope of which was ever a 
spur to my endeavors, yet what will all this avail me in the 
eternity into which I have now entered, unless the judgment 
of Him who searclieth the reins and the hearts be also a judg- 
ment of mercy and approval? O, pray for me, my Mends, for 
the hand of the Lord hath touched me." 

"Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been 
His counselor?" Not even the Church of Christ pretends to 



Funeral Ceremonies in the Senate Chamber. 21 

lift tlie vt'il and declare the sentence of the Most High. For 
every child of God over whom her funeral rites are celebrated 
she has ever the self-same form of hund)le and repentant sup- 
plication for mercy. Even over those who have been highest 
in the ranks of her ministry slie utters the same cry for mercy, 
and whatever there is of added liturgy is only addition of sup- 
plication because of their weightier responsibility. Knowing 
full well how truly the apostle says: " If we say that we have 
no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us;" in the 
awful hour of death slie discerneth not between layman and 
cleric, between the poor stray sheep that has got into the 
fold, as it were, at the last moment, and the faithful one that 
has stayed in it always; but over them all and in the name of 
all equally she cries out to the Eternal Judge: " Have mercy 
on me, O God, according to Thy great mercy, and according 
to the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity. 
For I know my iniquity and my sin is always before me."' 

She ofters up that prayer for mer(-y not only for them, but 
in their name. She prays for all men, without limit or excep- 
tion, with a charity as catholic as her name, as limitless as 
the charity of Christ. But she can pray in the name only of 
those who have associated themselves with her, who have 
become her mendiers either in accomplished fiict or in clearly 
declared intention and desire. She prays this day not only 
for Senator Bakbour, but in his name, because for years past 
he had identified his religious life entirely with her. She 
regards him as having been a catechumen, a candidate for 
baptism and for full membership in her communion, for such 
his words and acts plainly declared him to be. And from the 
earliest days of the Church's history we see with what special 
tenderness she regarded her catechumens. History has pre- 
served to us the discourse pronounced by the great St. 
Ambrose over the Emperor Valentinian, who was cut off by an 



22 Funeral Ceremonies in the Senate Chamber. 

untimely death ere yet he had joined the membership of the 
(Jhurch by receiviug baptism. 

Grieve uot — 

Says the saint — 

because he died without the sacrament of baptism. Tell me, is there any- 
thing on our partliut the will, the desire f That j>;race he desired he asked 
for; who then will say that haviu}:; asked he did not receive f Assuredly 
because he asked the grace he received it. Pour forth then, O Eternal 
Father — 

He toutiuues — 

pour forth on this Thy servant the abundance of the mercy and the grace 
which he so desired. As Thou has crowned Thy unbaptized m.artyrs with 
the bai)tism of their blood, so crown this Thy servant with the baptism of 
his desire. And ye, O brethren — 

He exclaims to the people — 

unite your supplications with mine; offer for his soul the holy mysteries; 
with pious affection let us pray for his repose : by the offering of the heav- 
enly sacrements let us fidlow his soul with spiritual help. I scatter not 
flowers on his t(im1>, but I pour upon his soul the sweet perfume of Christ. 
With this will I sanctify his remains; through this will I invoke on him 



In very many words like these, all glowing with faith and 
charity, all laden with the sweetness of Christian hope, did 
this great father of the Church utter the feelings of his soul 
towards his beloved catechumen. And well we know that this 
was no prompting of human respect, no sacrifice of Cliristian 
principle to the dignity of the dead emperor. For it was that 
same Ambrose who met the Emperor Theodosius at the church 
door and drove him from the consecrated threshold and from 
the communion of the faithful, because the blood of the people 
of Thessalonica was on his hands. No, it was a duty which 
the great bishop knew that he owed to the catechumen whom 
death had so suildenly snatched away. And were he here 
to-day he would speak and act in like manner towards this our 
friend, who years ago declared his intention of becoming a 



Funeral Ceremonies in tlie Senate Ciiambcr. 23 

member of the old Ghurcli of Jesus Cliiist, who, when the duties 
of public- life, which lie theu thought he had laid aside for- 
ever, again seized on him and absorbed him, though he tern 
porarily delayed the final step, never retracted his expressed 
determination to take it, who all these years has spoken and 
acted as if he were already in full membership, and who, had 
time been given him at the last, would assuredly, as his family 
well knew, have asked for the grace and consolation of her 
sacred rites. 

What Ambrose did fifteen hundred years ayo we, his suc- 
cessors in the holy ministry, do today. And his eminence 
Cardinal Gibbons finding it impossible to fulfill this sad duty 
himself, glad am I that to me should fall the honor i»f filling 
his place; for during the eleven years that liichmond was my 
home and Virginia the field of my episcopal labors I shared in 
the pride that every Virginian felt at having for the repre- 
sentative of the proud old State in the national Congress so 
honorable, so high-toned, so spotless a man as John S. Bar- 
bour. When, about six years ago, shortly after the untimely 
death of his saintly and beloved wife, he gave me to under 
stand that soon we would be fellow Catholics, I rejoiced that 
the luster which his civic virtues reflected on his State and the 
honor which his public career did to his whole country was 
likewise to be shared in by the old church of all the ages, the 
mother of saints and heroes and sturdy upright men and women 
in every age and clime and condition of human life. Their 
lives are a testimony to her which she values highly because 
of its utility to their fellow-men. 

In this age of intense activity, when absorption in temporal 
pursuits so often makes men unmindful of their eternal inter- 
ests; when the hard-\\Tought children of men are so prone to 
think that fidelity to the business of this life renders it 
impossible to be busy about the life to come; when C:esar's 



24 Funeral Ceremonies in the Senate Chamber. 

claims are so imperious and so all-pervasive that the repre- 
sentative of the spiritual order is apt to be considered, as her 
Divine Founder was, an intruder, a usiu-per, a disturber of the 
public peace — in such an age that man is a benefactor to his 
race who by the example of his life gives practical proof that 
it is jiossible and easy to be at the same time an energetic 
business man and yet a man of prayer, to be an active poli- 
tician and yet a conscientiously religious man, to be a clear- 
sighted American statesman and yet a firm believer in the old 
Catholic Church of Jesus Christ. 

Soon this Senate Chamber will resound with eloquent tributes 
to the admirable character and the eminent public services of 
this good and noble man. Would that the sound of those eulo- 
gies might reach so far and sink so deep into the heart of the 
nation that all his fellow-citizens might thereby be spurred to 
emulate his civic virtues. Would that the moral of his life 
might inspire good men everywhere with a better appreciation 
of their duty to tlieir country, with a Arm resolve that no pri- 
vate considerations should hinder tliem from taking their full 
part in safeguarding the ijublie interests, instead of leaving 
them to the mercy of selfishness and greed. Wovdd that, 
before this example of clean-handed i)ublic service, venality 
and corruption miglit cower in shame and disappear from the 
sanctuary of our C(juntry's liberties forever. Would that, at the 
sight of this union of American statesmanship with Catholic 
faith, the outcry of religious animosity, so out of place in this 
land of civil and religious liberty, might forever be hushed. 
And, oh, would that, above all, the silent eloquence of this 
imijressive spectacle might indelibly imprint on the mind of our 
country and on the minds of all her public men that lesson so 
solemnly taught us by Washington in his Farewell Address, 
that the absolutely indispensable foundation and props of 
national prosperity must be morality and religion. 



Funeral Ceremonies in the Senate Chamber. 25 

Grant O Heavenly Father, that snch may be the beneficent 
fruit of the life and the death of this good man. From his 
example may there go forth an influence to purify and to elevate 
the life of his people. May liis country, which so lovingly hon- 
ors his memory and so sincerely deplores his loss, reap profit 
from the practical lesson Avhich his death bequeaths to all her 
citizens. May his testimony to the faith of our Lord Jesus 
Christ strengthen that faith in the souls of us all and make it 
invulnerable against the attacks of uubelief. And as Thy 
holy Pontiff, St. Ambrose, prayed for the soul of his beloved 
catechumen, so do we implore thee, O Father of Mercies and 
God of all consolation, to deal in sweetest mercy and love with 
the soul of this Thy servant. Eternal rest grant unto him, O 
Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in 
peace. Amen. 

The Vice-President. The committee of arrangements will 
escort the remains of the deceased Senator from the Chamber, 
and after the guests of the Senate have retired the Senate 
will accompany the body to the residence of the late Senator 
Barbour, returning to the Chamber for further duty. 

The casket was borne from the Chamber, and the Senate, as 
a body, the invited guests, and the clergymen attended the 
remains. 

At 2 o'clock and 10 minutes p. m. the Senate retm-ned to its 
Chamber, and the Vice-President resumed the chair. 

Mr. Manderson. I move that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 2 o'clock and 11 minutes 
p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, May 17, 
1892, at 12 o'clock meridian. 



EULOGIES IN THE SENATE. 

Febkuary 3, 1893. 
Mr. Daniel. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions wliicb I 
send to tlie desk. 
The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the Seuate deplores the death of the Hou. .loiix Strodk 
Barbour, late a Senator from the State of Virginia. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the 
business of the Senate he now suspended to enable his associates to pay 
proper tribute of regard to his high character and distinguished public 
service. 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these resolu- 
tions to the House of Representatives. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 



ADDRESS OF MR. DANIEL, OF VIRGINIA. 

Mr. President : My late colleague, the Hon. John Strode 
Barbour, to whom we now pay our parting tribute, filled 
exalted stations in the public ser\ace of his State and counti'y 
with commensurate ability, and closed here amidst his Sen- 
atorial labors the rounded period of a well-spent life. "As 
are our days, so may our strength be," is the prayer of him 
who would fill earthly existence with unfailing measure of 
good works. To him this prayer was answered. 

27 



28 Address of Mr. Daniel.^ of llrginia., on the 

Although the hoary locks of three score years and teu 
crowned his brow, decay liad not marred his powers nor the 
bui'deu of age bent his form. While will, energy, and faculty 
responded to every call of duty and the heart still found sat- 
isfaction in the tasks of to-day and the hopes of to-morrow, 
the last message that comes to the living from our Lord and 
Master came unto him, and he closed his eyes in peace. We 
shall miss the good cheer of his friendship, the help of his 
counsel, and the fi'uit of his toil. We shall mourn alike the 
public loss of their valued servant and the i^ersonal bereave- 
ment that afflicts the hearts of many friends. But for him, 
shall we not rejoice that his mortal pang was brief and that 
his length of days was tilled to the uttermost with the worthy 
deeds of a usefiil, an honorable, and a distinguished life % 

John Strode Bakbour was born in Culpeper County, Vir- 
ginia, on December the 2'Jtb, 1820, and died suddenly at his 
residence in this city about 5 o'clock in the morning of Satui- 
day, May the 14th, 1892, in the seventy-second year of his age. 
The daj- before he occupied his seat in the Senate, and had 
been busy with his accustomed tasks; the evening he had 
spent in dispatching his correspondence and in social converse 
with a few of his friends and neighbors who had called upon 
him. When he retired to rest it was with the i)rospect that 
years of continued usefulness stretched before him, and those 
who said '• Good night" to him had little notion that the last 
farewell was spoken. About daylight he awoke with pain, 
and a physician was sent for, but before remedial agencies 
could be eftective heart failure had done the work of death, 
and as the city awoke to its labors his spirit passed to its 
eternal rest. 

At the time of this sad occurrence I was detained at my home 
in Vii-ginia by sickness and was denied the privilege of sharing 
with the Senate in the funeral honors paid to our dead friend ; 



Life and Character of John S, Barbour. 29 

but I had the opportuuity of hearing amongst his coustitueuts 
the general ex^jressioiis of grief which were elicited by his 
death and of realizing how greatly he was esteemed and how 
deeply he was deplored. From all sections of the State and by 
all claswes of the people were manifested tokens of sorrow, 
appreciation, and regard; from those who had been with him 
and under him in the railroad service, those who had shared his 
political labors, and from that wide circle of neighbors and 
friends who were his associates in the diversified walks of life. 

The State felt throughout its borders that it had lost a citizen 
whose whole life had been worthily devoted to the service of 
his people, and whose loss it would be difficult to supply. In 
terms of singular eloipience and power, his friend, the Hon. 
John E. Kenna, of West Virginia (now, alas! no more), 
announced his death in the Senate on the day of its occurrence, 
and here in the Senate Chamber his funeral rites were 
conducted. Hence his remains were borne, attended by the 
Congressional committee aj)i)oiuted for the jjurjtose and by a 
concourse of friends, to the family seat of his deceased wife in 
Prince George's County, Maryland, and there by the side of the 
beloved companion who made life's journey with him and who 
had a few years preceded him in death. ''Earth to earth and 
dust to dust" was spoken over him. 

The life of John S. Barboi'E was not one whose great suc- 
cess was attained by sudden sallies of energy or by brilliant 
strokes of genius. It was more than this — a life sustained by 
a stable, steadfast, and lofty purpose and by that regular, per- 
sistent, and continuous effort which alone can build that which 
endures. He was descended from a family which has furnished 
many names distinguished in public annals. One of his ances- 
tors, James Barbour, represented Culjjeper in the House of 
Burgesses in colonial days. 

His father, whose name he bore and whose oldest son he 



•'50 Address of Air. Daniel, of Virginia, on the 

was, was a prominent lawyer of his county and a member of 
the Virginia convention that framed its constitution in 1829 and 
1830, and later a Representative in Congresfs. His kinsman, 
Philip Pendleton Barbour, was Speaker of the House of Eep- 
resentatives and an Associate Justice of the Siipreme Court 
of the United States. Another kinsman, James Barbour, was 
governor of Virginia during the war of 1812, and served as 
Senator of the United States, Secretary of War, and minister 
to Great Britain. Others of the same family have made note- 
worthy names in legal, literary, political, and business circles. 

John S. Barbour early in life developed the ambitious ten<l- 
eucies and large capacities of tlie family to which he belonged. 
After being well prepared in the schools of his native county 
he attended lectures at the University of Virginia for three 
years, and graduating in the school of law in 1842 entered 
immediately upon the practice of his profession. A few years 
later, in 1847, he became a member of the house of delegates ot 
Virginia. He was ret^lected in 1849, and served altogether in 
this capacity for four consecutive sessions. 

In 1851 his capacity for l)usiness was recognized in his elec- 
tion by a well-nigh' unanimous vote of the stockholders to the 
position of president of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad 
Company, an organization chartered to build a railroad from 
Alexandria to Cordonsville — a distance of 88 miles. It was 
in this occupation that he found his life-work. Under his 
administration the railroad was not only built according 
to its early projection, but was extended across the Common- 
wealth to the North Carolina line, and from time to time vaiious 
lateral branches of nearly .50(1 miles of aggregate length were 
constructed; and he continued for thirty-three years, until 
December the 20th, 1884, the president of the company of 
which he well might be called the father. 

Resigning the railroad service in 1884, he received from all 



Life atid Character of /ohn S. Barbour. 31 

who had been associated with liirn in his labors testimonials 
of the utmost respect and appreciation. Tlie directors of the 
company entertained him at a dinner at the Union League 
Club in New York and presented him with a silver service, 
accompanied with a beautifully engrossed series of resolutions 
testifying their regret at his retirement. What seemed to be 
more touching to his feelings was the tribute paid him by the 
employes of the company who contributed one day's wages to 
purchase for him a handsome watch. His parting witli the 
oflicials and employes was characterized by every incident 
tending to mark the affectionate regard in which he was held 
by them all, and we may well believe that he spoke the sim- 
ple truth when he said to them : 

If the tougne fail in responsive eloiiiience m.v heart is full of appreciation. 
I would remember with grateful feeliugs the constaut kindness with which 
I have always been treated, and I will ever keep this token as a memorial 
of my connection with you. My railro.ad life is my pride. While I have 
received other honors, while I have enjoyed the contideuce of my fellow- 
citizens in counties and districts in various ways in my past career, I take 
most pleasure and satifaction in the hours I spent in the business connec- 
tion with you, to which I liave devoted the best years of my past. lu 
these years of service I have formed associations with the men in the sAvice 
of the company which I shall never forget. In this work and in this com- 
pany I have found my most cherished and congi-nial employment. As a 
railroad ofifici.il I trust I have always done my duty first. I hope also that 
in doing it I have always had regard to the feeliugs and interests of the 
men associated with me in the operations of the company. I regard the 
time of my connection with them as the most pleasant of my life. 

I was recently the recipient from the company that I had lately served 
of a service of silver, which I fully apjireciated, but on this occasion this 
token of regard from yon has far higher value. I accept the gift with tlie 
deepest sensibility of which I am capable. It will always remind me 
of the useful and pleasant associations with the men of tjie Virginia 
Midland Railway. 

Many of you were associiited with nie iu the infancy of the Virginia Mid- 
land Kailway, and now when it has grown and is fully capable of standing 



32 Address of Mr. Daniel, of I Irginia., on the 

on it8 feet, I can but regard this watch as an emblem of the best memo- 
rial of the work which has been done in accomplishing this object. I have 
only to thank you in all the sincerity of my nature for your respect and 
esteem. 

Looking on this as one of the most pleasant incidents of my life, your 
valued gift must ever remind me of my past association withrailroad men. 
Railroad men have an imiiortant iluty to ]ierform. Some of the highest 
interests of the community are in their keeping. That duty has always 
been so thoroughly performed as to give them the confidence of the com- 
munity in which they live, and I am glad to feel that I have been so long 
and pleasantly associated with it. Again I thank you, gentlemen, and will 
detain you no longer. 

No strike amougst the employes of the company occurred 
during the thirty-three years of his service. The people of the 
communities served by the company as well as its employes 
entertained for Mr. Barbour the highest sentiments of con- 
fidence and respect. It is rare indeed — it is almost without 
a precedent — that an office should have been conducted, so 
varied and perplexing in its duties, and in which such 
diverse interests must be consulted, with such tact and Justice 
as to elicit golden opinions from all sorts of people, and this 
one fact speaks more for his ability and for his worth than a 
volume of eulogy. 

In ISSO the Hon. Eppa HtTNTON, who had represented the 
Eighth district of Virginia for four successive terms in Con- 
gress, retired from candidacy, and the Democratic convention 
assembled to nominate his successor was for awhile unable to 
reach a conclusion. Without Mr. Barbour being a candidate 
or seeking the position, his name served as a resolvent of diffi- 
culties, and upon its suggestion his nomination followed. He 
was elected in due course a member of the Forty-seventh, 
Forty-eighth, and Forty-nintli Congresses, and was succeeded 
by the Hon. W. H. F. Lee, whose death he himself announced 
in this Chamber but a brief time before we were called upon 
to mourn his own. 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 33 

In 1883 political excitement in "Virginia ran high and the 
opponents of the Democratic party were in complete ascend 
ency. The contentions as to men and measures were hot and 
fierce and both sides ranged their forces for a great struggle. 
At the State convention of the Democracy, which assembled 
in Lynchburg, by general consent Mr. Barbour was made 
chairman of the Democratic party. The functions of this 
position he discharged with great diligence and ability, and 
as a result of the victory which ensued his popularity was 
widely extended. In December, 1887, he was unanimously 
and without rivahy or competition nominated by his party 
caucus for the Senate of the United States, and being elected 
he entered, on the 4th of March, 1889, upon the term of service 
of which scarcely two years expired when death terminated 
his labors. 

It is difldcult to analyze with accuracy, as it is difficult to 
portray with skill the mental faculties and the personal charac- 
teristics of a man of aftairs such as Senator Barbour was, and 
yet I fancy that certain salient features of mind and method 
may be readily recognized in him and in his life. His mind 
was comprehensive, discerning, and discreet, and was well 
st^ired with common sense. He was eminently practical in his 
aims and methods, but in pursuit and practice he never trans- 
scended the instinctive modesty of the well bred gentleman, 
nor relaxed the firm purpose of the determined and well col- 
lected man. 

He was broaa, liberal, and charitable in his opinions — a 
cautious and sagacious counselor, foresighted, industrious in 
duty, seldom impulsive, but always persistent, capable of sus- 
tained and well directed effort, singularly devoid of the nar- 
rowness of the bigot, the vehemence of the zealot, and the 
vindictiveness of the mean. His political opponents he never 
judged with harshness. He knew the measure of respect due 
S. Mis. 04 3 



34 Address of Air. Daniel, of Virginia., on the 

others and to their opinions; he knew the allowances which 
must be made by all who seek just judgment for the diversities 
and the contrarieties of environment, education, interests, and 
sentiment. I have seldom if ever known a man who cherished 
so little the bitterness, rivalry, and jealousy which are natur- 
ally excited by sharp conflicts. He was stronger in his likes 
than in his dislikes, as are most rich and generous natures. 
He loved to serve others and to see others prosper. 

As a public man he served many from whom no selfish calcu- 
lation could anticipate return of favor. Respectful and accessi- 
ble to all alike, he gave friendly ear and hand to the humble 
without condescension, and he had no disposition to fawn upon 
the great. He was honest, independent, and outspoken in his 
opinions, criticising freely, but without acerbity. He had little 
disposition to be dogmatic, and no one listened more agreeably 
to suggestion or sought more studiously to protit by it. His 
career was characterized by a profound and unvarying wisdom 
rather than by isolated acts of swift and brilliant inspiration. 

No party leader could have been freer from just imputation 
of attempting bossism. He had not the spirit that would 
brook assumption, intolerance, and dictation on the part of 
others, and he never evinced a disposition to set up pretensions 
to iindue power in himself, and my respect and admiration for 
him as a man and as an official continually increased as I wit- 
nessed the patriotic considerations that controlled his public 
career. I rejoice that our relations were firmly established in 
friendship, and that I am enabled from knowledge to bear this 
testimony to his worth. He was an honor to the Common- 
wealth which sent him here, and I mourn him as a servant who 
was loyal to every interest confided to his hands, and as a friend 
whose ready instincts responded to whatever was noble, gen- 
erous, and kind. 

Senatf)r Barbour was a life-long Democrat and a firm 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 35 

believer in those fandauiental creeds of democracy which 
are so deeply implanted in the bosom of our race — the love 
of individual right, local right, home right, and public right. 
While his mind was schooled in the law and he had liberal 
culture and extensive information his experience and wrestles 
with the hard forces of economic and political strife had 
expanded it beyond the technicalities of pedantic learning. 
He dealt with great issues with a breadth and scope of 
judgment which transcended the lines of special pleading. 

The rough verity of nature to its principles and the stead- 
fast trend of Providence to its achievements, furnished him 
models, standards higher and truer than those which may be 
found in subtle dialectics; while the ennobling and softening 
teachings of the Christian creed found ft-uitage in his many 
acts of loving kindness and in the cheer and grace of his 
hospitable fireside. 

Senator Barbour was not a public si^eaker and seldom 
appeared upon the hustings. When he did he usually con 
tented himself with the enunciation of his position on public 
questions, leaving to others the task of advocacy; but he 
wielded a pen that was ready and vigorous in its powers of 
expression, and when he spoke in the Senate, as he did on 
several occasions, his colleagues were impressed with the 
clearness, directness, and force with which he stated and 
enforced his views. Senator Barbour was very diligent in 
service to his constituents and in attention to the various 
measures in which they were interested. His patience was 
untiring, and his labors were vast in lines of investigation and 
exertion which were not conspicuous to public view nor cal- 
culated to elicit public notice. 

The usefulness of Senator Barbour's life was its great and 
crowning characteristic. He was faithful to the community 
in which he lived, and a moving spirit in its public works. 



•36 Add?-L'ss of Mr. Mandersoii, of Nebraska., on the 

He was useftil to his family connections, doing the worthy part 
of the true kinsman, to cherish and advance tlieir welfare. 
He was nseful to his neighbors and associates, and was trusted 
and consulted and beloved by them. He was useful to his 
State, of whose good name he was jealous; to whose fortunes 
he was devoted; whose history aud traditions he fondly loved, 
and whose people he honored and faithfully served. He was 
useful to his country, and in its high places he set a note- 
worthy example of patriotism, decorum, and moderation. 

Our friend's task is done. At the ripe age of 72 his life, 
well tilled in its sum of joys and sorrows, and well filled, too, 
in well accomplished works, has expired like a flame which, 
while shedding a bright and gracious light, is suddenly 
extinguished. We may rejoice that ere feeble nature sunk 
under the weight of years, ere withered powers made mockery 
of former pride, ere disappointment added poignancy to the 
well-filled cup, he has i)assed fi'om work to rest. 

He remains with us a pleasant, wholesome, and ennobling 
memory. His friends, whose names are legion, will keep alive 
his endearing traits and virtues, aud his State and country 
will write his name in their story as a wise legislator and true 
patriot who loved and served them well. 



Address of Mr. Manderson, of Nebraska. 

Mr. President : Tlie interesting details of the symmetrical 
life and well-rounded career of John S. Barboi'r have been 
given to the Senate by the distinguished gentleman who was 
his associate and colleague in the performance of public duty 
in this Chamber. The recital is like unto a stately inarch to 
sweetest music. 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 37 

From the forming of the oolumu in the Old Dominion, nearly 
three-quarters of a century ago, down through the long line to 
the time when the parade was dismissed, under the shadow of 
the dome of the nation's Capitol, the movement was regular 
and majestic. 

There is in its contemplation profound satisfaction to all who 
witnessed it, and to those entirely familiar with it solace and 
consolation that overcome grief and bereavement. 

To the boy child, born in Virginia in 1820, there was the boon 
of distinguished ancestry and the comforting sense of honorable 
family antecedents to excite honest pride and compel that sense 
of noblesse oblige that is the main spur to heroic endeavor and 
noble deeds. 

His great grandfather, a member of the House of Burgesses 
in the old colonial days, his grandfather equally prominent in 
the great State whose boundaries in the early days of the 
Republic were from tidewater to the setting sun, his father a 
Representative from his district in the Congress, with a great 
uncle Speaker of the National House of Representatives and 
a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and 
another great uncle governor of his state, Secretary of War, 
Minister to England and United States Senator, there came 
to young Barbour, with the natural pride in his ancestry, 
deep obligation to keep the treasured name unsullied. He 
might indeed say, honor is the very 

Jewel of our house, bequeathed down from my ancestors. 

To this advantageous birthright was added a course in that 
great university that is the pride and boast of Virginia. If 
Thomas Jefferson had no other claim to the gratitude and 
reverence of his countrymen, the fact that his enlightened 
views, progressive spirit, and far-seeing vision prompted hira 
to take steps for the founding and rearing of that great 



38 Address of Mr. Mandcrsou, of Nebraska, on the 

scliool, which has trained for the public service so many 
master minds, would be sufficient. 

Acquiring the profession of the law and embarking in its 
practice in his native county of Culpeper, there came that suc- 
cess that showed his litness for it; for in law as in war, " suc- 
cess is the criterion of generalship." He had that judicial turn 
of mind that would probably have brought his steps to the 
bench, had they not been led by ambition for the speedier fame 
that came from political life and the more assured fortune tiow- 
ing from connection with one of the gi-eat enterprises that 
were extending roads of iron throughout all our borders. 

The fortune came from thirty years of labor in that most 
exacting of pursuits, the management and control of a great 
railroad. 

Just as surely as the ponderous engine, pulsating with 
apparent life and the impersonation of energy, wears itself 
out at last and is thrown to the waste heap, so the vigorous, 
energetic man, who seems untiring in his efforts to advance the 
corporate interests intrusted to him, finds the time come when 
physical failure and mental wreck result. 

Fortunately for our friend there came surcease of the destroy- 
ing labor incident to corporate control in the demands of the 
political life that brought him fame and well-earned renown. 

In politics he reached the culmination by orderly approaches. 
His was no sudden leap full-armed into the national arena. 
Four sessions of service in the legislature of his State, and 
three consecutive terms in the House of Representatives, 
brought him to this Chamber by well-worn paths, and permit- 
ted no obstacle in the way of performance of his duty in com- 
mittee and on the floor. He was not a showy member of the 
Senate. Modest and retiring by nature, he cared nothing for 
forensic display or oratorical pyrotechnics. None the less he 
did his full duty as legislator, and the public business entrusted 
to him received ample consideration and painstaking attention. 



Life and Charncler of Jolui S. Barbour. 39 

His march of lite euded iu May last. Death came in form 
the most acceptable. No lingering illness with its hours of 
suft'ering and painful anticipation of the end. He was with 
us performing his task during the day, the evening was spent 
in his library in converse with family and friends. The morn- 
ing's sun rose and with it his spirit left the clay. How vain 
the speculation as to whither it went. 

It was a brave spirit and a noble, actuating John S. Bar- 
bour to deeds that force our respect and to achievements 
that command our admiration. 

We believe it to be an indestructible essence, and whether 
its future shall be in other spheres, or whether it shall assume 
another incarnation we know not ; but are content that in this 
body, here with us, and in this form so lamiliar to us, it prompted 
to all that was good and ''acted well its part." 

We who have crossed over the center line of life find that 
day by day there is increase of those who will welcome us on 
the other shore. 

Men drop so fast ere life's mid stage we tread 
Few know so many friends alive as dead. 

It is well that it is so, for from the fact comes reconcilement 
to the inevitable. 

Last night as I looked through the Record for the tribute 
paid to Senator BARBorR's memory on the occasion of his 
decease it was with deep interest I saw that the announcement 
of his death was made by Senator Kenna. 

The fact had passed fi'om my memory, but as I read the 
eloquent tribute to the dead Virginian by the living West 
Virginian how vividly did I recall the scene. The youthful 
orator, who but yesterday was one of us, has also joined the 
vast majority. In the early days of the first session of this 
Congress there died the virile, active, energetic Senator from 



40 Address of Mr. Manderson, of Nebraska, on the 

the State of Kansas, Preston B. Plumb. Senator Kenna 
made reference to bis untimely taking off, and, as though he 



held in hand- 



That golden key 

That opes the jialace of eternity — 



said impressively : 

Mr. President, in this second sudden visitation of Providence in the 
present session of tlie Sinate, we recognize a power in whose inscrutable 
wisdom we were born to live and in the presence of whose unchallenge- 
able majesty we are born to die. 

These two Senators from adjoining States had much in com- 
mon. They were not only close friends but near neighbors and 
had an intimacy of knowledge of each other that enabled them 
to gauge each the other. In language more eloquent than I 
can give, John E. Kenna gave this estimate of the character 
and tribute to the memory of John S. Barbour. 

He said : 

And yet, Mr. President, speaking for myself and making frank expres- 
sion of the inspiration of which this solemn occasion possesses me, I have 
felt, as the associate and neighbor and friend of Mr. Bariioir, that mem- 
ories of his private virtues and public career, elevated and clean, and 
noble as they were, give back, at least in some degree, a compensation from 
the grave. They soften by the sweet influences which radiate from the 
consciousness of a life well spent the asperities of grief which nature is 
prone to indulge on occasions like this. This death is to my mind the gath- 
ering of ripened fruit, the garnering of the sheaf in the full measure of its 
golden maturity. 

John S. BARBOt:R was in all the relations of this world an elevated char- 
acter and an upright man. His sterling (lu.alities of miad and he.art bore 
practical fruit. His genius for affairs made monuments in the liusiness 
and iiublic walks of men, as, in a narrow s)>here, his humanity made grati- 
tudes which will follow like angels, guarding him to the tomb. 

When the Senate, as is its custom, shall have set apart a day to l>e 
devoted to the recounting of his manly virtues, and the exhiliitiou of the 
elements of his lofty character, it will be seen of all that his traits were 
above those of most of his fellow-men; that he was useful and valuable to 
his country and his countrymen ; that he practiced justice and fair dealing ; 
that he was imbued with a love of right; that he gave example worthy of 
emulation by youth as well as by age, and that he moved and had his l>eing, 
without ostentation or form, in the reverence and veneration of his God. 



Lijc and Character of John S. Barbour. 41 

Choice words fitly spoken. Great heart's tribute to great 
heart. It can well be said of either, now that both are gone— 

Calmly he lookd on lither lil'e, and here 
Saw nothing to rej;iPt, or there to fear; 
From nature's tenii)prate feast rose satisfied; 
Tluiuk'd Heav'n that he had lived, and that he <lied. 



ADDRESS OF Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia. 

Mr. President : I can not i)ermit this occasion to pass with- 
out paying my humble yet sincere tribute to the memory of 
John S. Barbour, of Virginia, 

Representing, as I do, in part, a State that thirty years ago 
was a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a people 
who are proud to claim as a part of their heritage the tradi- 
tions and history of the mother State, it is but natural that 
since our separation we have watched -nith the deepest inter- 
est the progress of events in that Commonwealth and the record 
of her sons, to whom have been committed to a great extent 
the destinies of her people. 

Because of this fact, the public record of John S. Barbour 
was as thoroughly known to the people of my State as it was 
to those of his own that he serve<l so loyally, but personally I 
had never had the pleasure of his acquaintance until he was 
sworn in as a member of this body. 

Assigned to a seat next to the one I occupied, and serving 
with me upon two committees, I soon learned to appreciate 
his many valuable qualities and to seek his counsel in reference 
to many public questions of mutual interest to those we rep- 
resented. As our acquaintance rapidly ripened into a warm 
friendship, and those sterling qualities oi mind and heart, 
which stamped upon him his individuality became better 
known to me, I learned to appreciate most highly those char- 



42 Address of Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia, on the 

acteristics which had made him the central figure iu one of the 
most important crises of Virginia's history. 

Mr. Barbouk was a man possessing the highest elements 
of leadership, of firm and accurate convictions in reference to 
those fundamental principles on which must depend the peace, 
tranquillity, and perpetuity of our dual system of Govern- 
ment; of a fearless honesty in the expression of his opinions 
upon any public question, regardless as to whether at the time 
the position he assumed was popular or unpopular, relying 
upon the sober second judgment of the people to vindicate the 
correctness of his action, and of a tenacity of purjiose in seek- 
ing to secure practical results, scarcely surpassed, if at all, by 
anyone I have met in luiblic life. 

Mr. Barbour was not a man of impulse or sentiment, nor 
was he a dreamer or theorist. His was essentially a i^ractical 
mind. Practical in legislation, practical iu politics, and practi- 
cal in all the business pursuits in which he engaged, whatever 
course he selected to pursue was the result of mature reileetion 
and earnest conviction. He subordinated everything to direct- 
ness of purpose. His success in life was not obtained by diplo- 
matic maneuvering, but by concentrating his powers for direct, 
aggressive, and unmasked attack. 

Mr. Barbour was one who never sought to obtrude his opin- 
ions unasked upon others, nor did he hesitate in giving them 
expression when duty or circumstances required him to speak, 
and when he gave expression to his views, it was done in no 
hesitating or doubtful manner. He was always plain, blunt, 
and positive in his utterance, being careful to leave no one in 
doubt as to the conclusion he had reached. He was not a time- 
server, and consequently his position was never equivocal. 

As an adviser and counselor he had few, if any, superiors; 
possessing a (ptiet, calm Judgment, broad experience, and a 
mind well stored with accumulated information, the result of 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 43 

years of critical observation uiul deep reflection, coupled with 
a delicate sense of right and wrong, his advice was sought by 
friends and colleagues, and his wise counsel was received with 
the respect inspired by the confidence which his associates had 
in the correctness and accuracy of his judgment. 

Mr. President, Yiiginia has been represented upon this floor 
by many of her most distinguished sons, but I venture the 
assertion that among that brilliant galaxy of statesmen whose 
patriotism and genius has assisted in guiding the destinies of 
our nation, no one among them was more loyal to her interests, 
more devoted to her traditions and history, more sensitive of 
her honor, or more truly representative of her people than 
John S. Barbour. In his death we, his associates in this 
Chamber, are sensible of the fact that we have experienced a 
personal bereavement; the Commonwealth of Virginia has been 
deprived of the services of a true, loyal, and representative 
son, and the nation has lost a wise and patriotic legislator, a 
pure and incorruptible citizen. 



Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire. 

Mr. President : John S. Barbour was a good man. and 
uo higher tribute will be paid to him to-day than is embraced in 
those few simple words. He was honest, sincere, amiable, 
kind-hearted, benevolent, and public-spirited. Unostenta- 
tious, courtly, dignified, and usually reticent, his great worth 
was known only to those who associated with him, and who 
had thus come to learn the sweetness of his nature and the 
nobility of his character. 

In the Forty-mnth and Fiftieth (congresses I was associated 
with Mr. Barbour. During that service we frequently met, 
and T learned to greatly admire him. He was a gentleman in 



44 Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire^ on the 

the truest and best sense. As a legislator he was careful ami 
painstaking, and both in liis public and private capacity stood 
deservedly strong with the people of his State. Ue was withal 
a politician of more than ordinary sagacity and skill, and his 
political associates in Virginia looked with great confidence 
upon his management of party affairs. 

Mr. Barbour made little noise in the world, but he was 
nevertheless intluential, snccessftil, and strong. His mind was 
as clear as amber, and his perceptions wonderfully quick and 
intuitive. A quiet man, he delighted and charmed those who 
knew him well, being a most agreeable companion and popnhir 
host. Attentive to his legislative duties and devoted to his 
books, he found time to enjoy his farm, his horses, and his 
friends; and socially he was a prince among men. 

During my service in the House of Rei)resentatives a great 
personal sorrow came to Mr. Barbour. A note of condolence 
made him my fast friend, and upon my advent to the Senate no 
warmer hand-grasp was received than that from the dead Sena- 
tor. In the Senate we were a-ssigned to duty on the same 
Committee — the Committee on the District of Columbia — and 
here the friendship of former days was renewed and strength- 
ened. As a member of that committee 3Ir. Barbour was 
attentive, industrious, and discriminating. He felt a great 
interest in everything pertaining to the present and future 
welfare of the city of Washington, and his vote was always 
given to measures calculated to beautify and advance the 
nation's capital. 

The last time I saw him was at a meeting of that committee, 
and two weeks after, upon my return from a temporary absence 
to my honu', his seat in the committee room was vacant, and 
his gracious presence was withdrawn from this Chamber. 

Mr. President, the greatest of dramatists exclaimed, "Death, 
a necessary eiul, will come when it will come. '' It came to 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 45 

our distinguished associate suddenly and unexpectedly. For- 
tunately he was prepared for death. His life had been pure, 
his aspirations lofty, his ambitions patriotic. He lived in the 
love of those who knew him best; in the respect of those 
with whom he associated; in the confidence of all with whom 

he dealt. 

Thus living, the best preparation for death had been made 
and the transition was fioni a world of care and pain to one of 
peace and blessed enjoyment. 

A good man, a pure citizen, a faithful public servant, a high- 
minded, honorable gentleman was .John S. Barbour, and the 
tributes of respect paid to his memory to-day are but a feeble 
and inadequate expression of the tenderness of feeling and 
the strength of appreciation that those of us who knew and 
loved him would gladly utter. 



ADDRESS OF MR. PLATT, OF CONNECTICUT. 

Mr. President : The intense interest which we feel and take 
in the active business and affairs of life and the sadness and 
sorrow with which we receive the announcement of death pre- 
sent the sharpest contrast in human aftairs, and to-day but 
illustrates this truth. This morning in the Senate we Usteued 
with attention to the message of the Chief Executive of the 
United States on one of the most important questions which 
could be presented to us; next, we listened to an animated 
discussion of one of our great economic questions ; and now the 
Senate is hushed, and we consider for the hour death and its 
consequences; we recall the memory and the virtues of one of 
oirr associates who has gone. 

It is a common remark that no man is neccessary to society. 
We sometimes think as we see great talents, great eftbrts, 



46 Address of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, on the 

distinguished ability in our public men, that they have become 
so essential to the life of the Republic, so necessary to human 
advancement, that when they drop out their place can not 
be filled. We look at a mau to-day in vigor and in strength, 
we see that he occupies a commanding position in legislation, 
in business, and we feel that this loss would be irreparable. The 
tensi(m upon the thread of life is a little too strong and the 
thread suddenly snaps ; he is gone ; yet on the morrow some 
one of the living steps into his place, and we say "how soon 
he is forgotten." 

In a sense this is true, and yet in anotlier sense it is not true. 
Every good and true man as well as every great man is essen- 
tial and necessary to society; every man who lives a good 
and true life becomes a part of society, part of the present 
and part of the future history of the Government. The influ- 
ence of a good man never ceases; death does not put an end 
to it; it goes on from year to year and age to age. 

A nation is a growth. It has a character like an individual, 
and as individual character in its growth is the sum of the 
thought and action of the individual, so the national char- 
acter in its growth is the sum of the thought, the action, and 
the work of the public man as he represents the private citi- 
zens of the nation. 

What we do here to-day we may feel will be overlooked in 
the future; and yet.it can not be lost. It effect must be felt 
for all time if we are but true and faithful. The sapling year 
by year accumulates a little ring of growth, which is overgrown 
by that of the succeeding year; yet every ring remains 
an essential part of the tree, and will so remain as long as 
the tree lives. Thus whatever a true and faithful man does 
becomes an essential part of the national growth, and will 
remain as long as the national existence continues. 

These thoughts crowd upon my mind as I contemplate the loss 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 47 

of a Senator of the United States. Tlie roll of the Senate is a 
long one. Turn to the Manual and you will observe that it is 
almost wholly a roll of the dead. The few who are here and the 
great majority who have gone comprise the roll of the Senate, 
and yet of those who have occuijied seats in this or the other 
Senate Chamber and who have been looked down upon from the 
galleries, no man has lived that Senatorial life without contrib- 
uting in some measure to the growth and development of the 
nation, to its advancement, its erlory, and its beneficence among 
the people of the earth. 

So with our deceased comrade. His life has now become a 
part < )t' his country's history. It was not permitted to him to be 
many years in this body, he served out barely half of a single 
term, yet what he did here must last forever as a part of the 
nation's growth and history. 

1 can not speak of him as critically as can those who knew 
him longest and who were more familiarly associated with him, 
yet, serving with him upon one committee, I came to know him 
well enough, I think, tf> api^reciate his character and to respect 
him fully. It seemed to me that he was a man who stood, as 
it were, between the old and the new. There have been great 
changes in this country, great changes in the methods of leg- 
islation as well as of business, great changes in the habits, of 
the bearing and the style of men, and it seemed to me that 
Senator Barboue represented the old order and the new order. 
He was courtly and dignified, with a kind of semi-aristocracy 
in his bearing like the men of the old school, and yet he was 
simple and unostentatious, genial, social, and absolutely demo- 
cratic in all his walks and tastes. He was a man of the people 
and of the present, and yet had much in his bearingand habits 
which reminded us of the past, and seemed to connect the 
present with the past. 

He was not an orator, but he was, as has been remarked. 



48 Address of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, on the 

distinguished for his practical knowledge and his practical 
ability. He could not split hairs with the logicians; he 
could not charm the Senate anrl listening galleries with 
eloquence; but he could go directly to the core of things and 
determine what was right. He was a man of convictions; he 
weighed things carefully; he looked at both sides of a ques- 
tion; and having weighed things and having looked at both 
sides of a question, he formed his judgment, and from that 
judgment he never swerved. He was not susceptible to any 
of the influences which the outside world supposes — and 
wrongly supposes — sometimes influence legislators. When 
he had made up his mind as to what was right aud proper 
with regard to a measure pending in this body the question 
of his action was settled. 

I believe that perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic 
of our fi-iend who has gone was the capacity which fitted him 
to make and enjoy ft-ieudships. His nature was a very lov- 
able nature; his heart went out toward others, and largely 
without regard to their station in life. He had as kindly and 
true an interest in the common people as in the more favored, 
and I do not wonder that the people of Virginia felt that they 
had sustained an almost irreparable loss when he was taken 
away. 

The man who has the capacity for friendship is a fortunate 
man, whatever else may be said of him. Friendship has been 
said to be, and I believe it is, the master passion. It is the 
one thing to be prized in tliis world. If I could have wealth, 
fame, or friendship, and had to choose between them, I should 
say, " Perish wealth and fame, so that I may enjoy true 
friendship." 

A friend is worth all hazards wc can run; 
Poor is the friendless master of a world. 
A world in purchase of a friend is gain. 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 49 

I am sure that in this quality of humanity Senator Bakbour 
was fortunate and rich indeed. 

So to-day we come to say a kindly and sad farewell to our 
absent comrade. We who knew him respected his worth; we 
admired his manly and noble character; we appreciated and 
cherished his warm and generous friendship. Our farewell 
does not imply forgetfulness, for our brother will always live 
in our memory and affection. 



Address of Mr. Hill, of New York. 

Mr. President : New York unites with her sister State of 
Virginia in i)aying her tribute of respect to the distinguished 
son of the Old Dominion whose death we are to-day lamenting. 

The loss is not to Virginia alone— it is to the Empire State, 
and to the Union as well. 

We have listened with unbounded interest to the able and 
eloquent eulogy of the deceased by his surviving colleague, 
who knew him so intimately and well, and nothing which I can 
utter upon this occasion can add anything to what has been so 
appropriately, beautifully, and feelingly expressed. Virginia is 
the home of orators, and when her representatives have spoken 
others naturally feel as though a respectful silence, or at least 
the utterance of a few brief, plain words is the best contribution 
that can supplement their nuigniliceut ettbrts, which we always 
80 greatly admire. 

Senator Barbour was himself a man of few words, delib- 
erate in action, strong in execution, plain in speech, sincere in 
his friendshiits, and faithful to his cherished principles. I need 
not tell his survivors around this circle that he was strong and 
wise in counsel, because none appreciated it more than we. 
His record in this ])ody was not distinguished by brilliant 
S. Mis. (U 4 



50 Address of Mr. Hill, of New York, on the 

orations and impassioned debate, but he was a safe, cool, 
earnest, and tliougiitful counselor in all that pertained to the 
■welfare of his country. 

My aci^uaintance with him began some years since, and it 
was renewed when I became a member of this Senate a year 
ago. I learned to look iip to him as one of the fathers of this 
body, who was ever ready to advise, to direct, and to assist 
its new and untried members. A pleasant smile and a cordial 
greeting awaited every one who apiiroached him. I am sure 
that lie had not an enemy here, and lie did not deserve to have 
any anywhere in the wide world. My association with him 
here, brief though it was, soon rii^eiied into a strong and 
enduring friendship. It grew quickly, it strengthened by daily 
intercourse, and nothing but death itself could sever it. 

I do not forget the fact that in the interparty contest of last 
year he was my political friend; firm, unyielding, and true. 
It was a critical period when friendships were tested and 
strained. Some were broken, some were cemented. He was 
a man of courage and resources, a statesman of foresight and 
prudence, a skillful politician in the best sense of the term — 
honest, high-minded, generous, and undeviatiug. He hated 
hypocrisy, fraud, and sham of every kind and nature. He 
respected honest opposition in political affairs, but he detested 
personalities and defamation. 

Let me refer to an incident in this connection. In the spring 
of last year two young men, indiscreet and overzealous, anxious 
for notoriety, visited the capital of Virginia to speak at a polit- 
ical mass meeting designed to aid the fortunes of a particular 
candidate for the Presidential nomination. While speaking 
for their cause, as they had a right to do, they unwisely trav- 
eled out of their way to attack Mr. Barbour, the then senior 
Senator from that State, impugning his motives and misrepre- 
senting his position and purposes. He was naturally indig- 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 51 

nant upon such an assault by strangers in his own State and 
among his own friends and he quickly resented it. 

Well do I recollect his flashing eyes, his tremulous voice, 
his vigorous gestures, and determined look as he spoke of the 
insult which he regarded had been offered him, and when he 
announced to me that he should attend in person the State 
convention at Richmond, which was to be held the following 
week. When bidding me good-bye on that occasion, alas for- 
ever, he grasped me by the hand and said: "I shall next 
week appeal to the people of Virginia from the attacks of 
these men, and rest assured neither you nor any of my friends 
will be disappointed in the result." 

I left for New York that evening, and the next morning 
Senator Barbox^r was dead. His death came as suddenly as 
a terrific peal of thunder in an unclouded sky, as a meteor 
flashing through the heavens, like a strong oak of the forest 
that had fallen before the storm. 

He was at this time the chairman of the Democratic State 
committee, the representative of Virginia upon the national 
committee, and its revered Senator— a man of commanding 
influence not only in that State, but throughout the South. 

It is needless for me to add that his loss seemed a personal 
one to myself; a strong friend and supporter had left me in 
an hour of need— a most critical hour. His death, deeply 
mourned throughout the grand old State of Virginia, which 
he loved so well, and regretted everywhere, may possibly 
have changed somewhat the whole political history of the 
country. 

To-day all factions, all parties, all citizens of whatever creed 
or nationaUty pay tribute to his manly virtues, his sterling 
attributes, and his exalted patriotism. 

We have not forgotten that peculiarly solemn and impressive 
funeral of his, the first of the kind, I believe, ever held in this 



52 Address of Mr. Hiscock, of New York, on the 

Senate Chamber, where the beautiful lites and ceremonies of 
his mother church were administered in our presence, whereby 
all were taught another lesson in behalf of religious tolerance 
and Christian brotherhood on earth. It was peculiarly fitting 
that such services should be held here over the revered 
remains of one of Virginia'spurestsous — Virginia, whose proud 
Senator he was — the State that had given to the country the 
great Jefferson, who had done so much for the suppression of 
bigotry and proscription, wlio now sleeps in its soil an<l over 
whose grave and upon whose monument there is inscribed the 
noble and imperishable record that he was the author of the 
statute for religious freedom in Virginia. 

Senator Baebotje lived a noble and useful life; he died full 
of honors which he had grandly achieved; his memory will 
ever be cherished by his mourning associates and by all his 
countrymen who love truth, respect virtue, admire courage, 
and esteem fidelity. Others knew him longer than I, none had 
a higher estimate of his exalted character. Reluctant to tres- 
pass u])on the iudiilgence of the Senate, I could not resist the 
opportunity which gratitude and affection alike prompted to 
pay this brief and simple, though earnest and sincere, tribute 
to my personal friend — the friend of every class, the friend of 
justice, the friend of liberty, the friend of humanity. 

His life was gentle, and the elements 

So raix'd in liim, that Nature might stand up 

And say to all the world, '■ This was a man! " 



ADDRESS OF Mr. HISCOCK, OF NEW YORK, 

Mr. President : We haveinpubliclife men numerous enough 
to be fairly called a ty])e, wlio possess none of the graces of ora- 
tory, and in the discussion of great questions seem to be unable 
to take a part. Their expressions of opinion are confined to 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 53 

their votes. Tliey seem also to be wantinj^ eutirely in the arts 
of the politician. They are never discovered making combi- 
nations or attemi>ting to assume leadership. They are quiet 
and unobtrusive, and in their private conversation are reti- 
cent in the expression of opinions. 

Their judgment, however, is universally respected, and we 
scarcely know to what element or characteristic in these gen- 
tlemen to attribute their strength. Yet they have it. They 
enjoy the confldence of their friends, and represent communi- 
ties and States in executive or legislative branches of the 
Government, and seemingly take those xiositions without an 
active effort on their part to secure them. And while, as I 
have said, in legislative bodies their expressions are confined 
to their votes, their political cai-eersare always satisfactory to 
their associates and constituents; their coiistituents rarely 
allow them to retire to private life; and their political careers, 
as a rule, are long and honorable. 

In my opinion, Senator Bakboitr, was one of the best illus- 
trations I have ever known of thetyi)eof men whom I have 
undertaken to describe. 

I served with him in the House of Representatives, and here in 
the Senate I was associated with him upon committees. Quiet 
and undemonstrative as he was in committee, rarely giving more 
than a terse reason for liis action, I have never met a gentleman 
whose opinions commanded higher respect than did his. 

My colleague [Mr. Hill] has said that the State of Js^ew York 
mourns this Virginian, Mr. Barbour. That is true, for Mr. 
Barbour, in his plain way, was conservative in respect to the 
political, economic, and financial questions which have agitated 
the country. He had come to be regarded by the people of the 
State which I have the honor in part to represent as a con- 
servative man: in no sense a theorist; a man who believed in 
property and the rights of property, in person and the 



54 Address of Mr. Hiscock, of New York, on the 

rigtita of person, who was uever in favor of trampling tbem 
down. 

We may say of this class of men that in times of political or of 
party excitement, when wild theories are obtaining a foothold, 
they are the sheet anchor of safety ; they are a powerful restrain- 
ing force, who are not carried away either by excitement or by 
a desire to achieve or hold leadership, but are content in their 
own way to discharge their duties honestly and faithfully, and 
willing to wait until the storm blows over for their reward. 

Associated, as I have been with Mr. Barbour in the other 
and in this branch of Congress, and in committees during his 
whole career here, I had learned to know him quite well. 
Belonging to opposite parties, I representing a money center 
that provokes great antagonism from other parts of the Union, 
and he representing a State somewhat opposed to it, we were 
not infrequently in consultation in respect to measures, and I 
came to have the highest respect for his character, for his 
sagacity, for his absolute purity of purpose, and his integrity 
of action. 

Few men were less accustomed than Mr. Barbour to 
watch the vane to discover which way the wind was blowing. 
He had an inner consciousness which guided him, and which 
he seemed to feel was representative in its character of the 
people whom he represented, and that it was scarcely neces- 
sary for him to watch to see whether he was in line with their 
sentiments or not. 

Socially he was pleasant, agreeable, kindly, and endeared 
himself to those with whom he came in contact. 

He was a man who, when he died, the sentiment was not 
one of indifference on the part of those who knew him ; but of 
absolute and unqualified regret. The young men who read 
history and mark the career of i)ublic men as the guide and 
inspiration of their own course, may well study his character 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 55 

and life record as au illastratioii of what surely comes to those 
who do not trust to geuius, to their power of persuasion, to a 
subtle ability to direct forces which maybe marshalled to pro- 
mote political advancement, that we commonly designate as 
wire-pulling, as an illustration that the highest honors fall to 
the plain uncompromising man, whose guide is his common 
sense and his conscience. 



Address of Mr, Hunton, of Virginia, 

Mr. President: In every age of the world and in every 
country the virtuous and distinguished dead have been honored. 
In the American civilization of the nineteenth century this 
duty to the dead is seldom neglected. In some form or in some 
way we show our appreciation of the loved and honored ones 
who go before US. It is meet and proper when one of those 
who but recently made a distinguished part of this body has 
fallen a victim to the fell destroyer that those whom he left 
behind should pause and for a brief moment lay aside the cares 
and the conflicts of Senatorial life to speak of and recall his 
virtues, and in aftectionate language pay a tribute of respect 
and esteem to a departed friend. 

In this spirit I desire to speak of my friend, the late Hon. 
John S. Barbour. 

He was born in the county of Culpeper, Virginia, on the 
29th day of December, 1S20, and died on the 14tli day t)f May, 
1892, aged 71 years and 4^ mouths. He was educated at the 
University of Virginia, then as now one of the finest institu- 
tions of learning in America. 

He obtained his license to practice law soon after leaving the 
University, and began a professional life in his native county. 

In 1347 he was elected to the legislature. His county was 



56 Address of Mr. Hunton^ of Virginia.^ on the 

almost evenly divided in politics, but he was elected four times 
and then voluntarily retired. Born of distinguished Demo- 
cratic parents, he always adhered to the principles of the 
Democratic party. 

In 1852 he was elected president of the Orange and Alex- 
andria Railroad Company, organized to huild a road from 
Alexandria to Gordonsville to unite with the Chesapeake and 
Ohio Raih'oad at the latter point. He conducted this enter- 
prise with singular ability, and by his great financial skill 
extended his railroad first to Lynchburg and then to Danville. 
This road, now called the Virginia ^lidland, forms a part of the 
great chain of roads known as the Richmond and Danville 
system. 

In 1880, against his protest, he was nominated and elected 
to the Congress of the United States to represent the Eighth 
Virginia district. 

I had declined a nomination for a fifth term. Mr. Barbour 
was nominated in his absence from the State to succeed me. 
A meeting of the Hancock and English Club held in my town 
soon after his nomination was reported as follows: 

At a meetiug of the Hancock ami Euglish Clnb of Warrentou, one day 
last week, Gen. Eppa Huntou said that he had come to the club to speak 
of the nomination of .Tonx 8. Barbour. It not only satisfied but gratified 
him. Within five minutes after he heard of it he telegraphed his congrat- 
ulations and received this characteristic reply: 

"Thanks for your kind message. The public interests would have been 
better subserved by your continuance in office, I am sure." 

He did not know within the range of liis ac(iuaintance a better man, a 
man of better sense or one having more inliueuce, than ,Ic>hn S. Barbovr. 
He vras a diligent, persevering, sensible man. and few Kepresentatives on 
the floor of the House would prove more eBloient than he. The speaker 
could not recall a day when John S. B.\ri!()L'R did not stand high in his 
esteem. His intimacy with him had been long. He knew him when a, 
member of the legislature and for many years together as head of one of 
the principal corporatiiuis in tlie .State, and he did not believe that that 
m.iu lives who can point to one blot on his character. Upright, honest, 
intelligent, influential — who can object to him. He was modest withal. 
He never desired a nomination, never sought it. 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. hi 

When his name was first mentioned in connection with it he forbade its 
use, and he only consented to accept a nomination, made withont his 
knowledj;e. from a liif;li Heuse of duty. We go into convention expecting to 
give and take; and all of us should rejoice that the outcome of the Alexan- 
dria convention was most favorable — favorable to tiie election of a true 
Democrat and to the election of Hancock and Knglish. The Congressional 
ticket strengthened the electoral ticket. This of itself should make true 
Democrats, men disappointed in obtaining their first choice, hail the nom- 
ination gladly and give to it a hearty support. He (the speaker) would 
not only support it, but do all in his power to ratify it in November next. 
Gen. Huntou concluded I)y ottering the following resolution, which was 
nnanimonsly adopted: 

••litKohed. That the Hancock and English Club of the town of Warrenton 
ratify tlie nomination of John S. BAHlioiR, of Alexandria, and pledge him 
a cordial and undivided support."' 

The sentiment.s I then expressed were held up to tlie period 
of his death. Our subsequent intercourse and his services 
thereafter rendered to the State intensified these sentiments 
and strengthened the bond of friendship between us. 

He was again elected in ISS2. At this time and for several 
preceding years the Republican party, under the name of 
Read.justers, had obtained the political mastery in Virginia, 
and her people looked with dire forebodings on the future if 
ruled and governed by this party. In their extremity the 
eyes of the patriotic people turned to Mr. Barbouk. They 
believed that he (if any man) could bring victory to the Demo- 
cratic party and rescue them from the ruinous dominatir>n of 
the party which had controlled the State for several years. 

Reluctantly he was induced to take charge of the campaign 
of 1883, and by his judgment, his energy, and his skill as a party 
leader rescued his State from the enemy. 

He was again elected to Congress in 1884, and continued to 
serve the Eighth district as its Representative in Congress, 
and the whole State as the chief executive of the Democratic 
party, and always as the leader of his party in the State con- 
ducted it to victory. 

He declined a reelection to Congress in 188(5, and in 1888 he 



58 Address of Mr. Hunton, of I 'irginia, on the 

was elected to the United States Senate for the term beginning 
the 4th of March, 1880, and ending 4th of March, 1895. I need 
not say to his coUeagues here that hi.s career in this body of 
distinguished men was honorable and useful. He was not a 
brilliant debater, but was one of the working men of the 
Senate. His judgment was always respected — his advice was 
fi-equently sought and generally followed. He did a great deal 
to shape the policy of his party and to mold the legislation of 
Congress. 

But he was not allowed to serve out his term. In the midst 
of his honors and usefulness he was suddenly called away; 
called to join the dear wife he loved so well and who preceded 
him to the tomb a few years ; called from family and friends 
who loved and honored him ; calle<l from the service of his 
beloved Virginia that was still ready and willing to bestow her 
highest honors upon him. 

On Friday he was an active member of this Senate. He 
seemed unusually well that evening and retired in good health 
at the usual bedtime. 

Early the next morning he aroused the family, and before a 
physician could reach him the soul of my friend was with his 
Maker— so suddenly he passed away that only tiios«- around 
him knew that he was sick. 

The lightning bore the sad news to the country, and there 
was no part of his State that did not mourn the death of this 
great and good man. 

He was the friend of the needy. He was the counselor of 
all in distress. His purse was always open to help the virtu- 
ous poor, and the cry of mourning at his death came up from 
the cottage of the poor as well as the dwellings of the rich. 

When his funeral obsequies were observed in this Chamber 
all parts of his State sent representatives to testify to the 
high character of the honored dead. The Chief Magistrate of 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 59 

Virginia and the executive officers were here. Towns, cities, 
and counties sent tlieir representatives to sliow how well tbey 
loved him and how much they momned his death. 

His distinguishing characteristic was wisdom. He was emi- 
nently a wise man. He was a man of afiairs. He understood 
human nature, and the motives which moved men to action. 
He measured npto Seneca's definition, "Wisdom does not show 
itself so much in precept as in life, in tirmuess of mind, and 
mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk, and 
to m;ike <me's actions and words all of a coh>r." 

In the language of Longfellow, ••Ripe in wisdom was he, 
but patient and simple and childlike." 

I knew him long and well. For more than forty years I 
knew JOHN S. Bakbovr. For the last twenty-five years of 
his life I knew him intimately. We were close friends. I 
mom-n his death. Our paths through life ran side by side. He 
succeeded me in the House of Eepresentatives. I succeeded 
him here. I, much more than any Senator, feel his loss. 

His life was singularly pure and upright. He filled many 
high and responsible offices and always filled them well. Xo 
one ever suspected him of any breach of trust. He voluntarily 
laid them down. He was never discharged. 

His intercourse with his fellow-men was ever marked by 
courtesy and kindness. He had no enemies. Those who 
knew JiiiiN S. lURBOUit as a public man respected and hon- 
ored him for his public virtues, his patriotic devotion to right, 
and the high sense of honor that crowned his every public act. 
His character shone brightest in the home circle where he 
was the honored and considerate head. He was the aflection- 
ate husband, the tender friend, and the hospitable and genial 
host. ]Sro one ever dispensed a more thorough Virginia hos- 
pitality. 

He married in 1865, Miss Susan Daiugerfield, of Alexandria, 



60 Address of Mr. Huntoji, of Virginia. 

Virginia, who was one of the kjveliest characters I ever knew, 
and in every sense of the word liis lielpiiieet. She preceded 
him a few years to the grave. He was to her the tender and 
affectionate hnsband; she was to him the devoted wife. 

From this Chamber he was borne by loving hands to his grave 
at the homestead of his wife in Maryland and buried by her 
side. He lies on the banks of tliis beautiful river, which alone 
separates him iu death from his loved Virginia. 

It is no invidious distinction to say that no Senator has been 
buried from this Chamber more respected than Senator Bae- 
BOUR. None ever served his constituents more faithfully; no 
shadow dims the luster of his long career; no suspicion mars 
the completeness of his integrity. " Life's vain parade is over. 
He walked with throngs of good fiiends ; now at last he is called 
to pass alone the dread portals of death." "Well done, thou 
good and faithful servant; enter upon thy reward." 

Senator Barbour had not united himself with any cliurch, 
but he was a religious man. His sonl was tilled with charity, 
the chief of the Christian virtues. If good deeds furnish a 
passport to eternal rest, John S. Barrour is now enjoying his 
reward. While we mourn his death let us resolve t« inutate 
his virtues and emulate his good deeds. 

Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased, I move that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock 
and 2.5 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until tomorrow, 
Saturday, February 4, 1893, at 11 o'clock a. m. 



EULOGIES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT- 
ATIVES. 



February 25, 1893. 
The Speaker: The hour of half past 3 o'clock having 
arrived, the Clerk will report the special order. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That Saturday, the 25th day of February, beginning at 3:30 
o'clock p. m., be set apart for the purpose of paying tribute to the memory 
of Hon. John- S. Barbovr, hitely a Senator from the State of Virginia. 

Mr. Meredith: Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions which 
I send to the desk. 
The resolutions were read, as follows : 

Resolved. That the business of the House be now suspended, that opportu- 
nity may be given for tribute to the memory of Hon. .Iohn S. Barbour, 
lately a United States Senator from the .State of Virginia. 

Resolved, That, as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the 
deceased and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a distinguished 
public servant, the House of Representatives, at the conclusion of these 
memorial services, adjourn. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk be instructed to send a copy of these resolutions 
to the family of the deceased. 

Mr. CoMPTON took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 

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G2 Address of Mr, Meredith, of Virginia, on the 



Address of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia. 

Mr. Speaker : This is to me a most solemu and serious occa- 
sion. According to the custom of this House, we are now 
permitted to pay a tribute to the memory of a deceased friend. 

My own recent protracted illness has prevented the prepa- 
ration of such an address as would be suitable to the occasion 
or worthy of the memory of John S. Barbour. His life and 
character were such as to need no eulogy at my hands. My 
greatest pride is that I could call him my friend. 

The only standard by which he could be measured was fixed 
by the Almighty himself. He was an honest man — the noblest 
work of God. Quiet and unostentatious, he believed more in 
work than in words. And his life proved the success of his 
untiring- and uncea.sing efforts in behalf of his State, his coun- 
try, and his party. 

He was the worthy descendant of a race of men who had 
helped to make the political history of this country, and the 
best years of his life were spent in developing the material 
interests of his native State. 

Born in 1820 in the historic county of Culpeper — a county 
which he represented for four terms in the legislature of 
Virginia — and where he began the practice of his chosen 
profession, he had reached the ripe age of 72 years, when 
he was suddenly called from his earthly labors. 

Political honors he did not seek ; they were thrust upon him. 
In all the relations of life he was the true and courteous gentle- 
man. Faithlul to every trust, whether as a railroad president, 
Representative, or Senator, he won the esteem and respect of 
all with whom lie came in contact. 

Placed by the force of his personal character and sound 
judgment in a position to have made himself wealthy by the 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 63 

use of knowledge obtained as president for years of one of the 
most important railroads of bis State, be positively refused to 
advance bis own interests or to take advautage of information 
obtained by bis ofiicial position. 

He was always true to bis friends and to bis State. In tbose 
dai'k days of Virginia's political bistory, wben tbe banner of 
bis party bad been trailed in tbe dust, and wben in tbe agony 
of ber soul bis motber State called for some one of her sons to 
lead ber out of tbe wilderness of misery and degradation, be 
proved a veritable Moses, and successfully led bis party to a 
complete victory. 

Elected to the Senate of the United States, bis sound judg- 
ment, his courteous manners and clear comprehension enabled 
him to take rank with tbe foremost men of that august body 
and made bim tbe natural and successful champion of tbose 
principles to which be had ever adhered. 

He was a believer in tbe teachings of Jefferson and iu tbe 
l)olicy of Jackson, and bad no part or lot in modern shams or 
subterfuges, but made honesty, integrity, and sincerity his 
rule of action. 

In all tbe catalogue of Virginia's illustrious sons, no purer 
man ever served her people. Xo man's death was more keenly 
felt, and no man's memory will be more reverently cherished. 

I shall submit, Mr. Speaker, as a part of my remarks an 
article which appeared in the Richmond Dispatch from the pen 
of Dr. W. W. Scott, a cultivated gentleman and devoted friend 
of Mr. Barbotjb. 

JOHN STRODE BAEBOUR. 
[For the Dispatch.) 

The press and many prominent people in and out of Virginia have borne 
eIo(iuent testimony to the life and public services of the late John S. Bar- 
BOUR, United States Senator from Virginia. 

These notices, as was proper, related mainly to the public career, which 
has been known and read of all men with profound admiration. Mine the 



64 Address of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia., on the 

sadder task to portray his character and personality as he was known to 
his friends. No man had more friends than he, and it is one pledge of his 
worth that, almost without exception, once to be his friend was to be his 
friend always. 

His political career began almost with his manhood, and his first triumph 
was to wrest victory from the Whigs in one of their strongholds, and 
under the leadership of so beloved and resi)ecte<i a champion as the late 
Col. Daniel F. Slaughter, of Culpejier. But such were the amenities of 
politics in those days that defeat left no bitterness behind. 

Each party .strove only for the welfare of the Commonwealth. Mr. Bar- 
Bouu and Col. Slaughter livc<l out the allotted period of man's existence, 
cherishing each otlier with mutual esteem and affection. What, in these 
days of gigantic corporations, are the relations lietween a railroad presi- 
dent and its humbler employes, as its lirakemen and track hands? True, 
a cat may still look at a king. In all his long railroad career — almost, if 
not nuite forty years in duration — the company's president was also the 
employes patron and friend. He expected them to perform their duties, 
and he kept faith with the humblest as with the highest that in the words 
of Magna Charta he should "not be put upou nor wronged." Add so he 
came to be called atfectionately by the employes their "court of appeals," 
where every one could have free audience and whence no man went away 
till right had ]>revailed. 

Not while he was, but after he had ceased to be president, they presented 
him with a splendid token of their gratitmle and atl'ectiou. 

His recent services to the party are fandliar to us all. How in 1883, 
when the Commonwealth and her best traditions were in peril and the 
Philistines were actually upon us, at the earnest behest of his fellow- 
citizens he took charge of the forlorn ho])e and "out of the nettle danger 
plucked the tlower safety." Virginia became tumultuous then with the 
applause his name everywhere evoked — in the cities as in the remotest 
hamlets — and all the people felt safe while they knew that John S. Bak- 
BOUK was on guard. Alas! the sentinel is otf jiost now, and though the 
"long roll" is .sounding for the Democratic hosts to assemble, "no sound 
can awake him to glory again!" 

It is well known tliat Mr. Hahbour made no pretentions to the gifts and 
graces of an orator on the hustings. Gifted he w.is in an extraordinary 
degree with a persuasive tongue in ijuiet and private discourse. He did 
not see things l)y halves, but his mind was broad and comiirehcnsive, his 
discernment and discrimination a<ute, his reasoning cogent and conclu- 
sive. But coniiireheusive and "msny-sidcd" as was his mind his heart 
was ''the inmiediate jewel of his soul!" 

"Though r si)eak with the tongues of men and angels and hav(^ not char- 
ity, I ann become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." Thus is it writ- 
ten in the Good Book, and thus do all men believe. I speak that I do know 
when I say that he abonudetl in charity — in quiet, unobtrusive, unosten- 
tatious charity, not such as humiliated as much as it relieved. Old friends 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 



65 



of his who had fallen upon evil days received many a bounty at his hands 
nor ever knew whence it came; nor was a proper appeal for help ever 
made to him iu vain. He loved the good old Commonwealth and all of 
her proud traditions, and deplored with genuine solicitude the straits 
of fortune into which so many of her worthy people had fallen. And he 
exhausted invention in an earnest effort to huild up her waste places and 
restore her people to prosperity and happiness. 

His home in Washington was as if some old-time Virginia mansion had 
been transferred across the Potomac. It was the abode of genuine, 
unaffected, and refined hosjiitality . Welcome greeted you at the threshold 
and closed the dour behind you, and your host, growing reminiscent of 
the diiya and men he had loved, would so beguile the time as to make his 
guests loath to depart. He knew the art " Aem^we iu loco,'' and enlivened 
his talk with apt anecdote and incident; but, barring the emphasis of 
occasional expletive, his conversation was as refined and chaste as his 
manners were simple and pure. 

He was a man of splendid presence and person, so fine looking, indeed, 
as to arrest attention in any company; his associates were the leading 
men of his State and nation; he was blessed with an ample competence, 
and his position for years had been one to attract adulation. Yet he 
remained a straightforward, natural-mannered, noble-hearted Virginian 
that loved his friends of high and low estate, and was true to all his obli- 
gations as man and citizen. His example was one of virtue and lofty 
manhood, and the annals of Virginia iu our time will recite no name ot 
greater civic luster. 

Since the death of his wife in 1886 his family had consisted of her sister, 
Miss Ellen Daingerfield, and his nephew, Mr. Richard Thompson. On the 
fateful night that was his last Mr. Thompson was absent, and Capt. Ham 
Shepperd, of Fauquier, was a guest at the house. About half past d m 
the morning of Saturday, May 14, Mr. Barbour knocked at Miss Dam- 
gerfield's room and asked that a doctor be summoned. 

She hurriedly threw on a wrapper and went to his bedside, but there came 
no response to 'her anxious inciuiry after his health. He who had been a 
brother to her in affection for all these years would not give the poor token 
of a word to this Sister of Charity in everything but name. Capt. Shepperd 
came breathless from his room, close by, and Ada, a faithful servant of the 
family. He placed his hand over his heart, but it was still. The end had 
come even before Miss Daingerfield had reached his side. 

From the soun.ling sea to the further slopes of the AUeghanies Virgmiiins 
came to his funeral to testifv their appreciation of the man. He was buried 
by the side of his wife at her ancestral home, ' ' Poplar Hill," in Prince George 
County, Maryland, in accordance with his wishes made known in his 
lifetime. There I leave him to his repose, endeavoring to merge personal 
bereav.-iuent in the public calamity. It will ever remain as a decoration 
to me to have enjoyed his friendship and confidence. 
For the last time, Snire et rale! Hail and farewell ' 

W. W. Scott. 

S. Mis. 64 5 



66 Address of Mr. O^ Ferrall, of Virginia^ on the 



ADDRESS OF Mr. O'FERRALL, OF VIRGINIA. 

Mr. SPEAKER: I can not letVaiu from adding my tribute, 
however feeble it may be, to the many which have been paid, 
to the life and character of Senator John S. Barbour, whose 
sudden death startled us in the, early morn of the 14th day of 
May last. 

Less than forty-eight hours before death's messenger came 
summoning him from this world, the land of the dying, t(j the 
next, the laud of the living, I had conversed with him upon 
important (piestions, and to mortal vision he was in the vigor 
of health. His voice was strong, his eye was bright, his cheek 
was ruddy, his hand was warm, and his intellect glowed with 
its wonted luster. Foreign indeed was the thought that I was 
listening for the last time to his words of wisdom which had 
so often guiiled me to my conclusions, and looking into a face 
which had never failed to impress me with the uobility of his 
soul and the grandeur of his character. 

I knew, of course, that the frosted hair upon his honoi'ed 
head told the story of the flight of more than three-score years 
and ten, but his buoyant spirits and joyous disposition made 
me forgetful, and I felt that he was more of a compeer of mine 
than one so far beyond me in years. 

Mr. Speaker, it has been my good fortune to meet and mingle 
with very many of the men who in the last two decades or little 
more have brightened the pages of our country's history, 
imprinted themselves upon the minds and hearts of the people, 
set examples wortliy of emulation, and carved their names in 
the niches of enduring fame. 

Some have been orators who captivated the attections and 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 67 

swayed the passions of the people; some have been logicians 
leading us step by step down into the well where truth is found, 
and then raising us to the surface full-anned to meet the 
sophistries and heresies with which the world abounds; some 
have dazzled with their genius in the domain of literature or 
the ai-ts and sciences ; some have shone with meteoric brilliancy 
in the walks of humanity and the broad Held of a common 
brotherhood, extending their sympathies in an ever-widening 
circle; some have risen to heights of glory on land and sea 
and drawn forth peans and praises for their courage and skill, 
devotion and patriotism in the dread arena of war, and some, 
while not orators, logicians, men of letters or science, philan- 
thropists or warriors, have combined within themselves quali- 
ties of mind and heart which made society transcendently 
better because they were members of it, the Republic far bet- 
ter because they were citizens of it, and the world much better 
because they lived in it, and in this class stood John S. Bar- 
bour, high in rank, the equal of the loftiest, the peer of the 
noblest. 

As you have been told. Senator Barbour sprung from true 
Virginia stock. His early opportunities were favorable and 
he acquired a liberal education and was prepared for the bar, 
but he soon abandoned it, and after serving when quite a 
young man several terms in the house of delegates of his State 
he entered upon a business career which marked him early in 
life as one of the most astute railroad managers which this 
country through a long series of years produced. 

Taking charge of a railroad in its infancy as president he 
continued in that position for a full generation of men, and 
when he retired the infant road of 88 miles had grown to .500 
in length and is to-day part of one of the grand trunk lines 
of the South over which the increasing commerce of the States 
through which it passes is carried, and the fruits of the sec- 



68 Address of Mr. O^ Ferrall, of Virginia., on the 

tions it traverses are fonveyed with liglituiug speed to the 
great trade marts and commercial centers. 

No man could have filled so long and so well the important 
position of railroad president unless he possessed in an 
eminent degree what is usually termed common sense, which has 
been defined as " the knack of seeing things as they are and 
doing things as they ought to be done." And, Mr. Speaker, 
this was the supreme characteristic of Senator Barbour ; this 
was the touchstone of his usefulness. Common sense directed 
him, common sense guided him, and thus directed and guided 
his judgment was almost infallible, whether engaged in con- 
ducting the aft'airs of a railroad, managing a political campaign, 
or legislating for the State or nation, lie possessed a quality 
which, while it had not "the brilliancy of the sun, it had the 
fixity of the stars." 

His strong common sense gave him wonderful tact and he 
surmounted difiiculties and removed obstacles in his course 
with ease, before which most men would have stood appalled. 
In fact, sir, he was in these particulars one of the most extra- 
ordinary men, in mj' opinion, of this age. Whether in storm 
or in calm, his judgment could be relied upon. Alwaj-s self- 
possessed, never unduly excited or elated, never discom'aged 
or cast down, his mind acted with the precision of the most 
delicate piece of mechanism, and his conclusions were reached 
wilh the quickness of a feathered arrow from an arclier's bow. 

He had the faculty, too, of inspiring courage and confidence 
in all around him, and imbuing them with his indomitable 
will. He was a teacher, too, aad a trainer, and to-day a 
young kinsman who grew up under his direction while he was 
connected with the railroad to which I have referred, stands 
in the front rank in railroad circles and is destined, if life is 
spared him, to rise still higher. His early lessons were 
learned in the ofltice of this remarkable man whose death we 
mourn. 



Life mid Character of JoJm S. Barbour. 69 

Let it uot be imagined, Mr. Speaker, that this strong man 

in council and in action, this Hercules in strengtli of mind 

and attributes of intellect, was harsh in manner or stern, for 

he was just the reverse. He was ever firm, but at the same 

time all gentleness and kindness. His presence was a very 

benediction. He was tolerant, respected the opinions of 

others, and never sought, except in the most gentle way, to 

impress his views iipon those with whom he ditfered. He 

seemed to feel with Shakespeare — 

What thou wilt thou slialt rather enforce with thy smile than hew to it 
with thy sword. 

While he always took a deep interest in politics in his State 
and exerted great influence, it was not until 1883 that he 
became prominent as a party leader. When the Demo- 
cratic State convention met at Lynchburg, in the summer of 
1883, it was confronted with the fact that the movement known 
as the Readjuster movement, and which was inaugurated for 
the purpose of readjusting the State debt, had been 
diverted from its original purpose and by shrewd management 
directed into channels which placed the Democratic party in 
imminent danger of defeat in the approaching legislative 
election. A Democratic leader in the broadest sense of the 
term was imperatively demanded. The broken column of 
Democracy had to be reunited, differences reconciled, heart 
burnings cooled, the demoralized ranks reformed and coiirage 
given to them, else defeat would be written upon the party's 
oriflamme in the coming November. 

From every throat there came the cry, "A leader ! A leader ! 
Who is he? Where is he?" Suddenly, like a flash, as if by 
intuition, John S. Baebour's name was in every mind and. 
upon every tongue, and that convention, composed of the rep- 
resentative Democrats of the State, with one voice selected 
him. He appeared before the convention, and with that 



70 Address of Mr. O^ Ferrall^ of Virginia., on the 

modesty that ever characterized him, expressed his doubts 
as to the wisdom of the conventiou in selecting him, but 
impelled by his sense of duty he accepted the high trust, and 
instantly victory was felt in the very air and courage leaped 
to every breast. 

He commenced his organization; he contrived and invented; 
he made preparations everywhere; he was watchful night and 
day, and left nothing to chance. He smoothed rough places 
and bridged difficulties, and gathered in all along the way the 
wavering and disheartened, and drew back into the ranks thou- 
sands who in thoughtless moments bad wandered into the 
enemy's camp. November came, and with it a sweeping victory, 
and from that hour the name of ,IOHN S. Barbox'R rang 
throughout Virginia's borders. 

Honored by the people of the Eighth Congressional district 
of Virginia, which embraces the county of his birth, with a 
seat in this House fur three consecutive terms and then trans- 
ferred by the unanimous vote of the general assembly to the 
Senate, his ser\-ices in both branches were marked Ity a display 
of the same sound Judgment which had drawn the attention of 
all tlie people to him for so many years, and that fidelity to 
duty which rose with him in the morning and went to bed with 
him at night all the days of his life. In the language of Bul- 
Aver: . 

Like a brave man. he wantetl no charni8 to encourage him to duty ; like a 
good num, he scorned all warnings that ivould deter him I'rnm doing it. 

But, Mr. Speaker, while I would like to dwell longer upon the 
life and character of this distinguished and beloved son of the 
Old Commonwealth, for my mind delights to linger amid the 
thoughts of his many virtues and noble and stainless pilgrim- 
age on earth, time will not permit. 

Death, "the golden key that opens the palace of eternity," 
came to him when the early morning air was redolent with the 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 71 

perfume of flowers and musical with tlie lays of the birds of 
spriiifTtime, and when luiture seemed to be iuviting all to live 
and be joyous, none to die. But how true: 

Thou liast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! 

Messages ou electric wings flew throughout the domains of 
Virginia, and the joy and gladness of that May morn were turned 
to sorrow and sadness, and hearts were made to bleed, and eyes 
were made to moisten. 

In the tomb, in a seciuestered spot, is incased his mortal body ; 
in a land where everlasting suns shed everlasting ])rightness, 
we trust, is his immortal soul. 

He reposes not in the soil of the State he loved and served 
so well, but his memory will be kept burning like holy incense 
upon Virginia's altars by her daughters, as if by vestal virgins; 
her sons will cherish it, and all her people honor it, while his 
name will live as long as her historians continue to portray the 
lives and characters of her worthies, aiul record the deeds of 
those who, born under her skies, were loyal to her all their days, 
and, dying, left behind them examples of fidelity to principle 
and devotion to duty, written not in sand, but engraved on 
sohd rock. 



Address of Mr. Wise, of Virginia. 

Ml-. Speaker : During this Congress the air has been full of 
farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead. Virginia 
had not recovered from the shock caused by the death of a 
lamented Representative in this House when she was sum- 
moned to stand "in all the silent manliness of grief" around 
the bier of a Senator whom she honored for his worth and 
loved for his virtues. 

Mr. Barbour departed suddenly in this city on the 14th day 
of May, 1892. Xo note of warning had been given to prepare 



72 Address of Mr. Wise., of Virginia, on the 

his i)eople for the sorrowful event. Its annouucement fell upon 
them with the startling eftect of a fire bell at night and their 
hearts were fiUed with profound grief. There had been no long 
and lingering sickness, no wasting and consuming disease. 

On the day previous to his death he occupied his seat in. the 
Senate Chamber, and was engaged as usual in the tlischarge 
of his accustomed duties. Although well advanced in years, 
their weight seemed to rest lightly upon him. He exhibited 
then no outward signs of weakness and decay, but on the 
contrary an unwonted flow of spirits, and appeared to be in 
possession of sufficient strength and vitality to endure for 
many years the severe labors and responsibilities of his high 
position. 

After the adjournment he retired to his home, and there, in 
famUiar intercourse with a valued and esteemed friend, dis- 
cussed current events in Virginia. In the easy flow of conver- 
sation they took no note of the passage of the silent hours, 
marked by " the slow clock in stately measured chime." When 
the liiends, wearied with the toils of the long day, parted, and 
the "good night" was spoken, they did not dream that "the 
inaudible and noiseless foot of time " was near to the hour 
when one of them would be summoned to pass over the river, 
to rest forever in peace beneatli the shade of the trees on the 
other side. Mr. P>arbour awoke with the dawn of day. He 
was troubled only for a moment with a feeling of oppression, 
and then " God's finger touched him, and he slept." 

Death comes to all. His cold aud sapless hand 
Waves o'er the world and beckons ns away. 
Who shall resist the summons? 

He was descended from a family which has given to Virginia 
and the nation many gifted and distinguished men. James 
Barbour, a near kinsman, sat in the house of delegates of Vir- 
ginia from 1790 to 1812, when he was elected governor. In 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 73 

1815 he was choseu to represeut the State in the TTnited States 
Senate, and served in that body for a uumher of years as 
chairman of the important Committee on Foreign Eelations. 
He was Secretary of War during a portion of the administra- 
tion of John Quincy Adams, and was tlien sent as minister to 
England. 

In 1839 he presided over the Wliig convention at Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania, which nominated for the Presidency Gen. Mil- 
liam H. Harrison. Philip Pendleton Barbour, another near 
kinsman, served many terms in this House, and presided as 
Speaker over its deliberations. He closed a brilliant career as 
an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
The father of Senator Babbouk was a man of mark and 
distinction, and held many posts of honor. He was a mem- 
ber of this House from 1823 to 1833, and was regarded as a 
strong debater and graceful orator. 

Senator John S. Barbour was born in the county of Cul- 
peper, Virginia, December 29, 1820. After preparation in the 
best schools of that day, he was sent to pursue a course of study 
in the University of Virginia, and to be trained for the work of 
his life. He was graduated a lawyer in 1842, and commenced 
at once the practice of his profession in his native county. 
In 1852 he was elected president of the Orange and Alexan- 
dria Eailroad Company (now the Virginia Midland Eailway 
Company), and continued in that position upward of thirty 
years. He served in this House during the Forty-seventli, 
Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses, and on the 20th of 
December, 1887, was elected to represent Virginia in the 
United States Senate for the term of six years from the 4th of 
March, 1889. 

In every position he was faithful and eflicient in the dis- 
charge of all duties. While he was not distinguished for his 
skill as a public speaker, and did not possess the gifts to move 



74 Address of Mr. Jl7se, of rirginia, on the 

by the power of oratory, or to please by the graces of rhetoric, 
he rose to the position of iiolitical leader iu his State, and 
was crowned with tlie higliest honors which his people could 
bestow. 

No man within the borders of Virginia exercised greater 
influence in shaping public opinion or in directing the move- 
ments of the great party with which he was associated. 
Although surrounded by men who possessed more magnetic 
force and were more showy, he left them far behind iu the race 
for the prizes and honors of life and for the confidence of the 
people. The ])eople regarded him as a safe counselor, and 
believed him to be an incorruptible patriot. 

He acquired his power and influence over men by the dis- 
play at all times of such sterling ([ualities and virtues as 
gained for him their respect and admiratio". In all his actions 
and utterances he exhibited moderation as regulated by wis- 
dom. Mr. Baeuoub never jumped to conclusions, but his 
opinions upon all subjects were formed after careful and labori- 
ous investigation. 

The processes of hi.s mind were usually accurate, and always 
directed toward the ascertainment of truth and justice. He 
did not permit his mental vision to be clouded by prejudice, 
nor his generous disposition to be dominated by selfishness. 
He was indebted largely to Ids good judgment for his success 
in life; it was "a parcel of his fortunes." He was gentle and 
kind toward all, and seldom, if ever, exhibited severity in his 
criticisms of the opinions and belief of others. Cicero defined 
justice to consist i7i "doing no injury; decency in giving no 
ofteuse." 

Having enjoyed witli him for many years the intimacy of 
established friendship, I can truthfully say that I never saw 
him willfully inflict injury or intentionally give offense. His 
good breeding was always manifested in gracefully remember- 



Life and Chaiacier of John S. Barbour. 75 

ing the rights of others, rather than in urgently insisting on 
his own. Ill him the ek-ineuts were so mixed as to produce 
an even, well-balanced, and upright man. 

In his conduct as a Representative he was not ruled by fac- 
tion and interest, but was filled by a passion for the glory of 
his whole country. He loved Virginia with filial devotion, 
and his attention was chietly given to the advancement of her 
interests ; but he always preserved a due regard for the general 
welfare. ^Ir. Baruour gave close and careful attention to all 
his duties, and was a painstaking, useful, and conscientious 
Representative. 

He was as conspicuous for his virtues as he was distin- 
guished for his public services. He was tender and loving as 
a husband, warm and devoted as a brother, true and sincere 
as a friend. 

Of the high blood which breeds the best men in Republics, 
as well as under other forms; of a personal worth that did no 
dishonor to his derivation, and that was always climbing the 
heights of well-doing; he died as he lived, a Christian gentle- 
man; aye, and of that best type of Christian gentility, which 
postpones the more blatant professions of religious sentiment 
to the quiet rendering of one's duty to neighbor, to country, 
and to God, without fear as to His infinite mercies. 



ADDRESS OF Mr. MILLIKEN, OF MAINE. 

Mr. Speaker: It was but a short hour ago that I was 
informed that the House would set ajiart a portion of this day 
as a mark of respect to the late Senator Bakbouk of Virginia, 
Imt I can not forego the opportunity, unprepared as I am, to 
express in brief but sincere and earnest terms my high appre- 
ciation of his character, and to pay my tribute of respect and 
aSection to his memory. 



76 Address of Mr. Milliken, of Maine., on the 

I believe, sir, it is good for us to commemorate in tliis public 
manner the \'irtues of those who have desei'ved well of their 
country and of mankind. It is good for all of us. It raises us 
above the common bickerings and strifes of everyday life, 
exalts the soul, and purifies the feelings. And, sir, this cust<mi 
is nothing new. It has existed among the greatest and most 
civilized nations in all past ages. We all know that Greece 
reared noble statues and monuments to commemorate the 
achievements and the fame of those who had earned the grati- 
tude of their country, 

Rome followed her example. She likewise raised her monu- 
ments and erected her statues to honor the memory of her dis- 
tinguished sons. They were to be found in her public baths, 
in tlie forum, in her market places, and at all points where the 
people were accustomed to gather. She was not satisfied tliat 
the virtues of her great and good should simply be written 
down in books of history and laid away on the shelves of the 
library of the student to be occasionally referred to, but she 
would have them commemorated in statues and monuments in 
her public places, that they might be ever before the eyes f)f 
the people, teaching them, and especially the youth of the 
country, to emulate the virtues and the achievements of the 
great dead who had deserved well of their countrymen by their 
heroic deeds and their wise and eloquent words. 

I had the good fortune to know Senator BARBOUR as a 
member of this House for several sessions. I knew him as a 
quiet but at the same time as a wise, diligent, very eflQcient, 
and thoroughly true member of the House. But I had an 
opportunity to know him still more closely. It was my good 
fortune once to cross the continent with him, and to recross it 
to this city; and the relations which were established between 
us were such as I will ever look back to until tlie last day of my 
life as among the greenest and warmest places in my whole 
career. 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 77 

He was a kind, geuial gentleman. He was a gentleman in 
the truest sense of the term. He did not obtrude his opinions, 
his theories, or his notions offensively upon any one. On the 
contrary, he seemed to be always thoughtful of other people's 
comfort as well as regardful of other people's opinions and 

feelings. 

I readily discovered that he was a wise and what in common 
parlance we would call a "broad-gauge" man. He was not 
one of those who believe that all virtues exist in their own 
neighborhood, that all wisdom is contained in their own 
county, or that all patriotism is circumscribed by the lines of 
their own State. On the contrary, his vision was as broad as 
his.country, and the goodness of his heart compassed all man- 
kind. 

It can truthfully be said that when his life went out a good 
man died, leaving to us as our inheritance the fragrance of a 
sweet memory. 



ADDRESS OF Mr, Tucker, of Virginia. 

Mr. Speaker: Amidst the wealth of pers(mal tributes paid 
to our deceased friend, I have felt it not inappropriate in me 
to add a contribution as to the character of Senator Barbour 
ttom the pen of one who was his companion in youth, the 
friend of his manhood, and his loyal supporter in his riper 
years. At my request. Mr. John Kandolph Tucker has pre- 
pared a paper commemorative of Senator Barboi-r's virtues 
and character, which I will now read. 

At your request I undertake to portray the character of the late John 
S. Barbour, Sen.ator from VirKinia. whose ileath severed the bond of our 
friendship, formed more than a half century ago at the University of 
VirRinia, which was never interrupted hy one moment of unkiudness, and 
of which the memory only remains fragrant with confidence, esteem, and 



78 Address of Mr, Tucker, of Virginia, on the 

aflfection. He sprung from a family, whose talents furnished to the coun- 
try the Hon. James narl)our, who filled the public stations of gover- 
nor of Virginia, iSenator, Secretary of War, and minister to England; P. 
P. Barbour, Justice of the Suiirenie Court and Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, and of John S. Barbour, sr., the father of my friend and 
a member of the House of Representatives, with high gifts as orator, 
statesman, and lawyer. Other members of the family have won distinc- 
tion in the general assembly and in conventions of the State, and in the 
field of literary acquisition. 

Mr. Barbour did not inherit the peculiar gifts of his race. His was a 
mind in which strong common sense, great sagacity in the guidance of 
affairs, and a remarkable knowledge of men were eminently cimspicnous. 
In early manhood these qualties were manifested, so that " the boy was 
father to the man." 

At the university he was not particularly distinguished for scholarship. 
His education was lilieral. but not specially classical or literary. His 
self-discipline was practical and such as to train him as a man of affairs. 
He studied law to ]>roficieney, but not for professional .advancement. 

The principles of law he mastered, and they were made available for 
the career be marked out for himself. His mental processes were acute 
and well defined, so that his thought was always clear and strong; but 
while his pen was fitted to convey in simple and unambitious English the 
train of his reflections and the results of his judgment, he had neither 
taste nor talent for pojjular eloquence, nor for expressing in public speech 
the sentiments which his intellect conceived. Indeed, though self-reliant 
in judgment, he had a modesty, almost bashfulness, which shrank from 
the observation of a public assembly. His perceptions were clear; his 
convictions deep and sincere, and his purpose aggressive by their avow.al 
to enforce them upon the minds of otliers. 

In conversation he was free, self-confident, and cogent; and through 
this medium and that of his i>en he so impressed himself uj)OU his asso- 
ciates as to make him a conspicuous and acknowledged le.ader of men and 
a director and guide in the conduct of aft'airs. He never courted popu- 
larity nor coveted tlie honors of public station. He was content to labor 
for what he thought for the public good, through the influence which his 
opinions were sure to produce, leaving to others to advocate and execute 
them. 

It is not meant that he had no desire for the appreciation of those for 
whom he labored. No man felt more keenly the absence of Ihis — none more 
warmly its manifestation. When patriotic duty induced the contribution of 
his abilities, his fortune, and his all to save his people from misrule and 
the upheaval of their social order, he did it with a lilieraland unstinted pur- 
pose, which knew no reservation and mocked at every obstacle. He loved 
Virginia with an unselfish di'votiou — her social life, her traditions, her his- 
toric glory ; and nothing be could otter to save her from niisgovernment, to 
vindicate her honor, and to jironiote the good of her peo]de did he hesitate 
to lay as a willing sacrifice on her altar. 



Life and Character of Johti S. Barbour. 79 

This feeling -was the key to his puMic lilV. The autonomy of the 
States -was the central doctrine of his political creed, and to secure this 
for Virginia the supreme motive of his political action. To this all else was 
subordinate; and hence he seemed to be indilierent to other policies iu 
order to achieve this prime aud essential object. 

He left the bar for the legislative halls of the Virginia general assembly 
iu 1847, aud for four years of great importance to the future destiny of his 
native .State he served her with fidelity, zeal, and ability. He afterwards 
became president of one of her leading lines of railway, when these enter- 
prises were iu their infancy. His sagacious administration expanded its 
original object into a great and now interstate corporate maturity. His 
skillful and steady hand guided its destiny through a war, disastrous to its 
interests, but from which it emerged into prosperity and power. 

During the ])eriod of civil strife he was true to the action of the people of 
Virginia, aud did all that patriotism could suggest and wisdom could eflfeet 
for the honor and welfiire of his mother Commonwe.alth. 

Some years ago, when the fortunes of the Democratic party iu Virginia 
had succumbed to the intluence of a dangerous schism in its ranks, he was 
invited by the Lynchburg convention to take the helm and steer the ship of 
that great organization safely into port. No one cau ever forget— all will 
ever proudly remember— that the voyage was made with preeminent suc- 
cess ; and the ascendency of that party in Virginia ever since is a memorial 
trojihy to the genius, courage, sagacity, and devotion of its great leader. 

In ail this period his judgment was recognized as well nigh infallible. 
Such was his eiiuanimity of temper ; such the equipoise of his intellect ; such 
the intrepidity of his nature, that jianics could not shake his constancy, nor 
delusive hopes mislead his judgment. He did everything which care, 
patience, and watchfulness re(|uired: omitted nothing which the public 
interest demanded and honor sanctioned, to achieve the nmst splendid 
success. 

Aliashed in accepting the honor of leadership, firm, self-reliant, ami 
fearless in the conduct of his party through the conflict; he was modest 
and unassuming in the hour of its triumph. The tribute of gratulation 
which the people ottered did not intoxicate him with vainglorious con- 
fidence; but each successive battle was fought with the same cautious 
husbandry of resources, the same inspiration of patriotism iu the hosts 
that followed him, and the same overwhelming combinations, which 
brought disastrous defeat to his foes, .and won glorious victory for the 
people of Virginia. 
He would have been more or less than man if he had not been deeply 
gratified when the great party to whose fortunes he had con.secrated his 
life bestowed upon him the well-merited honor of Senator of Virginia. 
He accepted it, as a tribute of the grateful appreciation of his beloved 
people, and entered on its duties with the simple aud unselfish purpose of 
so serving tho.se who had trusted him as to promote their welfare, conserve 
their free institutions, and advance the glory of the Union. 



80 Address of Mr. Tucker.^ of I'h-ginia^ on the 

Mr. Barbour was warm, generous, constant, and deeply sincere in his 
friendships. This was evinced in acts, very little in professions. His 
nature was the seat of noble and tender sentiments; hut none was so 
modest in their manifestation. He was too genuine to waste these deep 
emotions in expression. Their suppression was his habit. His love spoke 
only in artive beneficence. His griefs, even the most tender and bitter, 
shrank within the sacred cloister of his heart and died with him in 
voiceless woe. 

Candid with confidential friends he was reserved with strangers. To his 
opponents he was reticent, but without deceit. None knew or practiced 
better the maxim, "aliiid est velare, aliiicl tticcre; nequv niiin ill cat ceJare quic- 
quid reiineas." His warfare was skillful, but honorable. 

His canon of lawful strategy was by sagacity to detect the plan of your 
enemy, and by the wisdom of silence to screen your own. Reticence is 
not deceit. He thus assailed the weak poiuts of his foe, and never exposed 
his own. 

If, in the conduct of political strife, he sometimes ''gave his thoughts 
no tongue," it was more true ''he gave no disproportioned thought its act." 
If cautious not to speak too freely, he never spoke untruly, nor uttered a 
word to frieud or foe whicli miglit not lie fully relied on. 

Mr. liARUoru was a patriot. He loved his whole county and its glory. 
But to Virginia and her customs and habits, to lier peojile in their disas- 
trous adversity, his heart turned with a strong and resistless current of 
devoted affection. In private conversation these sentiments broke all 
the barriers which his modest nature jdaced upon the expression of the 
feelings of his heart. 

He was honest, upright, aiid honorable in private life, and devoted, 
tender, and true in don>estic relations. 

To delineate the iiualities of my dead friend is to me a sad pleasure. He 
has gone before and has met the dread audit of the future state. Within 
that awful "bourne whence no traveler returns " it is not ours to intrude. 
But we may be sure of this — that in all the duties which are demanded of 
the patriot citizen, of the public servant, of the steadfast friend, and of 
the head of a household, no man survives him who would not be honored 
by the epitaph "True to all duty; as true as JoHX S. Barbour, of 
Virginia." 

"No further seek his merits to disclose, 
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode 
(Tliere they alike in trembling hojie repose), 
The bosom of his Father and his God." 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour, 81 



ADDRESS OF MR. KENDALL, OF KENTUCKY. 

Mr. Speaker : The orphan Marius in Victor Hugo's master- 
piece, himself a child of the French devolution, while musing 
on the brave days of old and its heroes when there were still 
giants in tlic land, is said to have uttered these words: " The 
men of the revolution are so great that they already have the 
prestige of centuries like Cato and like Phociou, and each of 
them seems a memoire antique (antique memory)." So might a 
son of pioneer Kentucky, thefirst daughter of fair old Virginia's 
statehood, have muttered in a muse who knew the cavalier 
Senator whose memory we pause this day to honor. He looked 
the greatness that he was. The stranger in Washington who 
met him on his way from the Senate side to his home on Capi- 
tol Hill, when his tall bent form had passed, almost invariably 
turned to take a second look. 

His well rounded career, to me who have studied it in its 
many phases, is a star to which early obscurity has lent nothing 
but brightness. He never forgot that he was a gentleman by 
birth, instinct, and education — the superb scion of a splendid 
stock, modest and unassuming. His imi)ulses were as lofty as 
his numners were simple. He wielded the power which unusual 
capacity veiled with a modesty approaching that of diffidence, 
emblemed by the violet, can always command. His highest 
ambition was to be right as he saw the right, as much so as 
any Senator I ever came near. In cast of mind direct rather 
tha-n diplomatic, courageous rather than cautious; in style 
more concise than sublime, cogent, not often eloquent, l)nt 
always incisive and mercurial, he was a typical Southron and 
an ideal leader. To uncommon ]iarts, dignified simplicity, 
and perfect intellectual balance, he added the inspiration of 
S. Mis. 64 C 



82 Address of Mr. Kendall., of Kentucky., on the 

patriotism, the genius of hard work, the eloquence of cou- 
viction, and the logic of common sense. 

He spoke and acted from reflection rather than impulse. 
Observation and administrative talents of the highest order, 
early sowed in his mind with lavish hand, and his immense 
energies, reap"ed abundant fruitage. To his friends, whether 
rich or poor, he was unwaveringly tlie same, and the humblest 
constituent was as welcome as a Senator. His command (tver 
the minds of his fellow-men was the clear result of nature's 
partiality. His language and diction had much of the vigorous 
simplicity of Bunyan and his words were pictures wreathed in 
homely garlands. He impressed the earnestness of his con- 
victions, practiced the habit of forgiveness, hated no one 
because he wantonly injured no one, and sought success rather 
than revenge. 

He was a student, and yet he knew men better than books. 
We are told that he loved a good horse, and delighted in the 
nurture and improvement of stock. Obeying Solomon's injunc- 
tion he hated suretysliip. Like Solomon, he sought wisdom, 
and with it came wealth. Acute, fearless, insinuating, and 
intellectually honest, he was not suspected of insincerity in 
either his friendships or opinions. 

He combined the claims of a plain talker and thinker ; and, 
like the hero in one of the beautiful but tragic mythologies of 
the ancients, emjiloyed flowers oidy to conceal the keen blade 
of logic. 

In statecraft he seems not to have aspired to a higher wisdom 
than the aggregated sentiment of the common people, that 
excellent, conservative middle class who are at once the safety, 
the bulwark, and the glory of the Republic. His conception 
of the conscience and intellect of that class was very high, 
and he was not afi-aid to trust them. Very few public servants 
in a similar length of time accomplisheil more practical service 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 83 

for his State than he. In the vast circle of his prolonged pub- 
lic service, embracing the flower of his matured manhood, it 
can not be truthfully said that any pledge made to Vii-ginia 
was ever broken, that any promise remained unkept. He died 
without a stain on the snow of his reputation. 

As a politician, in the purer acceptation of the term, he was 
a partisan in the same sense that the lamented Vice-President 
Hendricks was a partisan. I need hardly say in this presence 
that he was neither double-dealer, time-server, trimmer, nor 
trickster. He was not a bigot. Of this fact Tiis illustrious 
colleagiies of the opposition party when these resolutions were 
pending in the Senate bore ample testimony. Upon the hus- 
tings, when the exigency of the occasion demanded it, he pos- 
sessed the power of paying his respects to an opponent in a 
manner and with a force at once kind, ungarnished, and 
matchless. 

Like Snowdoun's knight in Scott's Lady of the Lake, he went 
among his constituents and gathered their wants and needs 
from actual observation. He was kind to all without affecta- 
tion. Of commanding presence, gifted with a voice, when 
aroused and at his best, whose resonant tones were like a bugle 
call to action, possessing in no eminent degree the faculty of 
thinking on his feet, endowed with little of the imagination of 
the orator, but with the heart of a hero, he was wherever 
known the golden-hearted leader of the dominant power in the 
State of Virginia, who, in his promotion to a seat in the fore- 
most deliberative body on the face of the earth, stood vindi- 
cated and triumphant. 

As a partisan, however, he most forcibly impresses us, and 
it is as a partisan, perchance, that he will be best remembered. 
What that superb leader, Senator Oliver P. Morton was tt) his 
party in Indiana when he died, Senator Barrotjr was to his 
party in Virginia. To do exact justice to the character and 



84 Address of Mr. Kendall., of Kentucky., on the 

achievements of this man it would be necessary to review the 
jjolitical struggles in his State for the past ten years, but time 
will not permit. Intertwined, interwoven, and interlaced, 
they are inseparable. Of practical politics he was indeed the 
master, and it seems to me that that delicacy would be false 
that prevented his being pictured as such. When the watch- 
fires of the clans he led with matchless tact and tireless energy 
are burning brightly on the Blue Ridge aiul the Cumberland 
Hills across yonder, his name will be linked with his unpara- 
goned leadership. His broken bands will never again amid 
the clash of party conflict rally about his standard and feel 
their closed ranks enthused with the indomitable courage that 
shone from his aggressive nature and glance of confidence as 
a sure precursor of glorious victory. 

To one not sufficiently acquainted with Senator Barbour 
this may seem the language of extravagance, but to those who 
followed and those who met him they are the words of simple 
truth. Only yesterday I suggested to our worthy colleague 
[Mr. Meredith] that Senator Barbour was a wonderful 
organizer of men. His instant reply was, "The greatest the 
world ever saw." 

Above the politician, above the partisan, was the manliness 
of the man. He was the first to applaud and the last to con- 
demn. He always had a iiower of sympathy for a friend with 
a sorrow, as I personally know and am pleased to testify. We 
all remember, at least most of us here remember, the popular 
demonstration of afl'ection which crowded the other end of the 
Capitol during that impressive ceremony when the Senator 
lay dead in our midst. Calm-browed history when traced with 
impartial pen may not assign his name the first place on her 
precious page among the public men of his time, because he 
was a busy man of affairs rather than an author, but traditions 
among his constituents will unite in flower-kirtling his name 
with the rarest garlands of imperishable glory. 



Life a?id Character of John S. Barbour. 85 

In the humble cabin and around the big log hearthstone 
-where poverty and probity unite for the saving of the old 
fashions, and from whence came Lincoln and Davis, there will 
hover a sorrow and a mist, and here and there, irrespective 
of party tie, a rugged cheek has borne the priceless tribute of 
a tear in silence shed. Enough for those who loved him that 
in such hearts as these his good qualities will be sacredly 
treasured. 

"Did he live in vain?" No! His success teaches a lesson 
to aspiring youth, and that is, that reason, backed by honesty 
and stimulated by patience, can accomplish much; that to 
whomsoever will success is nearly absolutely certain, and that . 
to all such it seems to me the only real calamity is death. 
Every young man whose heart was filled with a laudable aspi- 
ration to advance himself and make the world better became 
at once his equal brother and his friend. 

Envy, we are sure, found no lodgment in his bosom, ami 
this fact above any other demonstrates to my satisfaction that 
Senator Barbour was truly great and good. By his open 
grave the young manhood — the brooch and gem of Virginia — 
who followed with eager pride and zeal his unrivalled crusade 
against repudiation may well pause, and from his methods and 
staunch adherence to what he believed to be principles erect 
guideposts and blaze the way to future usefulness. The story 
of his life will redound to the glory of the Virginia citizen. 
Like the flowers which loving tenderness will plant upon his 
grave, beside the beautiful river sparkling in the silvery sun- 
shine, his name and fame will bloom and fade in our hearts 
and memories as a paragon worthy of emulation, the shriveled 
i«af but furnishing a richer soil in which to germinate a truer, 
chivalric, and more statesmanlike patriotism. 

Emblazoned and embalmed in the sacred, holy, and tender 
traditions of the people, whose high commission he time and 



86 Address of Mr. Kendall, of Kentucky, on the 

again carried to tliis Congress, will rest secure the memorial 
of Senator John S. Baebouk a picture in tlie heart of a 
great Comnionwealth, equaled by few of her living sons and 
surpassed bj'none. The wind harps of the forest will wail his 
requiem, and on the altar of duty done we humbly and rever- 
ently lay the tribute flowers of respect infinite. 

Not a military hero, his strong voice swelling the wild roar of 
war as the Union cheer and the rebel yell went up to heaven, 
borne on the music of heroic bugles, but emphatically a 
civic chieftain upon whose breast there sparkled perpetuallj' 
the bright star of priceless honor. In advocating the claims 
of Senator Barbour to distinction, 1 feel a peculiar personal 
pride, because, although myself the son of a brave and humble 
soldier, as gallant and true as ever rode in a charge to the onset, 
and the honor of being whose son is a heritage that will live 
when stars and titles and chaplets are dead; still I hold as 
good doctrine that the war being over, its glories and its tears 
past and forever gone, it should be forgotten or remembered 
only as an inheritance in common, its glories cementing the 
old love for a new union. 

In the history of the Old Dominion he will occupy a unique 
position. Whilst in my humble judgment, if I may be permitted 
the privilege of comparison, inferior as a Constitution defender 
to Hon. John Eandolph Tucker, whose splendid abilities once 
shone resplendent in tliis HaU, and to whose encomium by proxy 
we have just listened; whilst not equal in tlie graces of classic 
oratory to the Castellar of the assembly, Mr. Daniel, who sat 
by his side and whose characterization of his dead colleague 
renders this hasty unaffected tribute superfluous, yet as an 
organizer and leader of po^jular forces, whom all must follow, 
exhibiting a genius in politics like Napoleon in war, in the 
generation in which he lived and moved. Senator Barbour 
will stand without a rival and without a peer. 



Lift- pjid Character of fohn S. Barbozir. 87 

Sir, let us hope, let us believe, that in that " undiscovered , 
country" whither the restless spirit of the gentle, modest, manly 
man, the devoted friend, the beloved husband, and the eminent 
Senator fled, life is eternal joy perennial. 



Address of Mr. Jones, of Virginia. 

Mr. Speaker : The pleasing task of portraying the life and 
recounting the virtues of our departed friend, the late Senator 
John S. Baebouk, has been faithfully and aiiectiouately per- 
formed by the colleague who served with him in the Senate 
and his li-iends and admirers upon this floor, and there is but 
little that I can add to what has already been so beautifully 
and tenderly said. 

When death came, suddenly and with only the slightest 
premonition, he was yet in the full \igor of his mental powers 
and apparently in the enjoyment of his u.sual health and phys- 
ical strength, and although he had passed that milestone which 
marks the allotted limit of human life, the silvery locks which 
in such rare and graceful profusion crowned his noble brow and 
a slightly bended form alone betokened the many years which 
comprised one of the most beautiful and useful of lives. 

It was just preceding the Presidential campaign of 1880 that 
I first met Senator Barbour, and although before his death 
we were thrown into daily intercourse and I enjoyed the privi- 
lege of his companionship as well as his distinguished friend- 
ship, it was as a leader of men and a director of great political 
movements that I knew him best, for as such he achieved his 
highest fame and won for himself that love and veneration on 
the part of the people of his State which knew no diminution 
up to the hour of his death. For, although he had earned a 
high and enviable reputation as a man of affairs and created 



88 Address 0/ Mr. Jones, 0/ Virginia, on the 

for liimself a proud position in the world of business before 
entering actively into public life as a member of the Forty-sev- 
enth Congress, and was already widely known to the public 
men of the country, it must in truth be said that he reached 
the summit of his fame in the field of politics, where, in his 
own State, he stood admittedly without a peer. 

In the State election of 1879 a new party sprang into exist- 
ence in Virginia. It owed its being to the unsettled and 
threatening condition of an enormous public debt, and its 
membership enjoyed the suggestive title of "Readjusters." 
Whatever else may have been said of their leader, he was a man 
of unsurpassed energy and limitless resource, an able and 
astute political manipulator, who discovered, in the deplorable 
state of the public finances and the feverish condition of popu- 
lar sentiment, a favorable opi^ortunity to build up a new party 
upon a single local issue, and to promote his personal and 
boundless ambitions. 

A combination was quickly effected with the leaders of the 
Republican party, which party was composed in the main of 
ignorant negroes, and, armed with such a seductive issue as 
the readjustment of the public debt, the coalition which con- 
fi'onted the Democratic or debt-paying jjarty very soon proved 
to be esceedingly formidable, and after a fierce and bitter 
struggle it succeeded in securing the absolute control of the 
legislative branch of the government. The victory thus won 
was two years later followed by another, which resulted in turn- 
ing over to a reckless and irresponsible majority the executive, 
legislative, and judicial departments of the State government, 
and whicli threatened with serious injury, if not absolute 
destruction, the material prosperity and social system of the 
Commonwealth itself. 

It was this serious condition of affairs which confronted the 
people of Virginia at the opening of the biennial legislative 



Life and Character of John S. Barbour. 89 

election ot the aututnu of 1883. In the summer of that year 
the Democratic State convention assembled in the city of 
Lynchbnrg- for the purpose of reorganizing its party forces and 
preparing for the conflict then imminent. Its greatest and 
most pressing need was a political David who could success- 
fully cope with the triumphant and hitherto invincible leader 
of the coalition forces; one possessing rare power of organiza- 
tion, consummate knowledge of men and methods, keen politi- 
cal sagacity, untiring energy, indomitable courage, unfaltering 
faith, matchless leadership, and a nature thoroughly imbued 
with the spirit of patriotism ; for to such a leader only could be 
safely committed the destinies of a great party, the hopes of a 
people, and the perpetuation of the free and enlightened insti- 
tutions of one of the proudest and grandest of Commonwealths. 

Such leaders are not easily to be found; they are sometimes 
raised up in great crises, and Virginia has not been wanting 
in such when the occasion for which they were needed was 
present. In Johx Strode Barbour the hour and the man 
were met. To him was intrusted the almost unequal task of 
redeeming the State from the, rule of a party whose touch was 
even more blighting than that of " carpet bagism," and whose 
master spirit unwonted success had invested with the popular 
belief that he was invincible. 

But the incomparable management and superb generalship 
of this new-born leader of Democracy resulted in the complete 
overthrow of its enemies and culminated in that wonderfiil 
political triumph by which the legislature of Virginia was 
wrested from the hands of those who had come to be regarded 
as the deadliest foes to the best interests of the State. This 
single campaign served to establish the reputation of Senator 
Barbour as a leader of men and a director of campaigns, and 
to beget for him that affection and rare confidence which the 
people of Virginia ever afterwards reposed in him. 



90 Address of Mr. Jones, of IHrginia, on the 

In the gubernatorial contest that followed two years later 
Senator Bakboub was again at the head of his party, and his 
second victory was even more comjilete than his first. The 
now defeated coalition leader not only directed in i^erson his 
forces in that great political battle, but himself headed its 
ticket, and the defeat which overtook him was decisive and 
crusliing in the extreme. It robbed him of all that was left 
of his former ])restige, and the party that he had organized 
and led to victoiy and to power never regained its hold upon 
the State, and has long since been numbered with the wrecks 
that are strewn along the triumphant march of Democracy. 

For six years this wonderfully successful leader remained at 
the head of his party, and each year but added to his unsul- 
lied fame so courageously won and so richly deserved. At the 
convention which assembled in Chicago in 1884 he was made 
a member of the National Democratic Committee, and his 
associates in that body have always borne willing testimony to 
the fidelity, wisdom, and exalted patriotism with which he 
discharged the responsible and arduous duties of that impor- 
tant trust, and which he continued to discharge up to the time 
of his death. 

In speaking of the political career of our dead friend I have 
been obliged to go somewhat into detail. As a member of the 
Democratic State central committee, during the years in which 
he was its inspiration as well as its head, its brains as well as 
its power, and having had the honor of sharing with him in 
some small degree his arduous labors, I was thus afforded an 
unusual opi^ortunity for observing his political methods as 
well as witnessing the splendor of his triumphs, and I have 
felt that it was but just to his memory, and not inappropriate 
even upon such an occasion as this, that I should briefly refer 
to his brilliant political career, a career that won for the poli- 
tician a generous admiration, and for the man the enduring 



Life and Character of J aim S. Barbour. 91 

love of as noble and cliivahous a people as tbe civilization of 
the world can boast. 

It is not to be denied that to the vulgar mind the word 
politician conveys a meaning not in accord with the high 
moral character and stainless reputation of the man to whose 
sacred meinory we would to-day pay just tribute. But to my 
miud it carries a far different meaning, and if the life of our 
dead friend had accomplished no other good purpose, it would 
at least have given to the world a higher and nobler, a truer 
aind a better, conceptionof the just uses of politics. 

To study the science of government and to alleviate the woes 
of mankiud, to devote one's talents to the hopes and needs of 
a community, and to disseminate the blessings of civilization 
is of itself ennobling; and such are some of the sweet uses of 
the science of politics. It is because there is no more inviting 
field of activity whose gates are open to mankind that 
unscrupulous men so frequently occupy it, and yet the char- 
acter of the man can only be a reproach to him, and ought uot 
to be an argument against the career he has chosen. 

Because legislative bodies have been debauched it does not 
foUow that the pursuit of politics is degrading and all politi- 
cians corrupt and venal. If so, oui- much boasted jury system 
should be abolished, because, forsooth, jurors have been bribed 
and verdicts i)urchased. The more in\'iting and seductive the 
calling, the greater the danger that bad men will enter upon 
it. Depict the self-seeking politician in colors as forbidding 
as you may, the science of politics is still the highest of earthly 
pursuits and the politician the most faithful exemplification 
of true manhood. 

In these days of materialism and of practical politics, when 
governmental and not sentimental questions occupy the atten- 
tion of statesmen, even the most casual observer can uot have 
failed to note that the practical man is the man who best serves 



92 Address of Mr. Jones, of I u-gmia, o?t the 

Lis country. Senator Baebour was preeminently a practical 
man, and although his nature was not devoid of sentiment and 
the tenderest emotions found a place in his breast, his mind 
was of an intensely practical turn, and he studied with care the 
great financial and economic questions with which he was called 
upon to deal. 

Thorough in all things, he was recognized as a sound and 
careful adviser, and his long and varied experience as a busi- 
ness man furnished him with an equipment that made him 
conspicuously useftil as a legislator. He was not merely an 
intelligent observer of political events — he was more. He was 
one of those great personalities who shape public sentiment 
and direct the course of great events. His ruling inspiration 
was his love for his State. He was a politician of stainless 
honor, a statesman of spotless personal character, and a patriot 
who loved his country with all the intensity of a heart that 
was comprehensive enough to embrace humanity itself. And 
again, he was withal the kindliest, tenderest, and most gen- 
erous of men. 

Of an aflectionate and sympathetic nature, he was ever 
alive to the wants and necessities of others, and it is safe to 
say that few men have died leaving behind them so many who, 
although bound by no ties of blood, mourned with a grief that 
was deeper or a sorrow that was more sincere. To this senti- 
ment there are none who will bear more willing and heart-felt 
testimony than my colleagues upon this floor. I can never 
efface from my memory the rude shock that thrilled me when, 
in the early hour of that quiet Saturday morning, a mutual 
friend who had been the guest of Senator Barbour the night 
before hmried across the street which separated his house 
from mine, and with uplifted hands, trembling lips, and in 
tones so low and faltering that they seemed scarce above a 
whisper, gave utterance to the startling words, "Mr. Barbour 
is dead." 



Life and Cliaracler of John S. Barbour. 93 

Only the daybefoit' \ had discussed with him the exciting 
political situation then disturbing our party iu Virginia, and 
had marked the deep solicitude, if not forebodings, with which 
he viewed the internal dissensions whicli seemed to becloud his 
party's futm-e. His fame was secure. Ins hohl upon the affec- 
tions of his' people such that he had no care for his own politi- 
cal future. It was only his party's and his country's welfare 
tliat caused him anxiety and greatly disturbed his ordinarily 
cpiiet placid nature. 

It is difficult for those who were closely associated with him 
in life to realize even nowtliat his soul has taken its flight and 
that they shall evermore be deprived of the benefit of his wise 
counsel and his generous friendship. No words can describe 
the immeasurable loss that the State sustained in thedeatli of 
such a man nor adequately portray the, sorrow of those who 
knew him but to love, to trust, and to admire him. 

Mr. ^NIerkdith. I now ask the adoption of the resolutions 
subndtted by me. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to; and in accord- 
ance therewith (at 4 o'clock and 55 minutes p. m.) the House 
adjourned. 



